missing newline when a magic is called from the qtconsole menu

[pierre-haessig]

A tiny display glitch when calling the a magic from the qtconsole magic menu (which is a great addition by the way).

How to reproduce this display issue :

1. launch a qtconsole
2. type some commands, assign some variables, like a=1...
3. click the %who magic from the bottom part of the magic menu (or similarly %history, or %who_ls)

This ends up with the output from %who being directly written to the right of the magic without a newline being inserted.

After playing a bit with this bug, I'm getting confused because I cannot reproduce it 100 % of the time. Sometimes the display is fine while sometimes the newline is missing : weird ! Also, it seems that when the %who magic is called from the "Namespace magics" submenu (instead of the root of the magic menu) the display is fine !!

[Carreau]

Dear Pierre,
I suppose you observed the bug in debian ?
Was it from master or 0.13 ?
If it was from 0.13 can you try from master, especially after the merge of #2101 ?

Thanks.

[pierre-haessig]

Indeed I'm using IPython 0.13 from Debian testing.

Now that you mentioned pull request, I feel this bug may another avatar of issue #2082.

I could try master if I knew how to install it quickly and safely (without destroying my system-wide Python installation). I'll take a look at http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/development/testing.html.

[Carreau]

just clone the source and do

python ipython.py qtconsole

from the root of the source tree.

#2101 was ment to fix #2082.

[pierre-haessig]

Yep, thanks to the dev documentation, I was able to do it by myself ! but thanks for the help anyway. The abilty to run the IPython program directly from the source tree is great for quick testing.

And by the way, I think #2101 indeed fixes this issue.
(would be good if a 0.13.1 release could make its way to Debian testing before the stable release)

[Carreau]

Working on it, we'll just finish SciPy2012 first.

Take care and have fun :-)
see you soon.
--
Matt