Request: Line breaks in line magic command

[tkf]

It would be nice if IPython's line magic command can have line breaks, like python or shell script. For example, I want something like the this in notebook:

%run myscript.py \
  --output very/very/long/path/ \
  --parameter_alpha ... \
  --parameter_beta ... \
  --parameter_gamma ... \
  ...

Will it over complicate the current magic command system?

[fperez]

It's certainly a very reasonable request. Implementation-wise it's a bit delicate because the syntax handling code isn't totally trivial, but it's not impossible either. And at least this is the kind of thing that's relatively easy to carpet bomb with tests so that one can be reasonably confident that an implementation is solid.

[takluyver]

Heads up: this is possible with PR #2447.

[takluyver]

This should now be working, so I'll close this issue.