Embedding an interactive IPython shell

[alainS]

The way I understand it you should now be able to simply start a embedded console by

import IPython
IPython.embed()

However, this raises

TraitError: The 'exit_msg' trait of an InteractiveShellEmbed instance must be a string, but a value of u'' <type 'unicode'> was specified.

If we pass a string for exit_msg by

IPython.embed(exit_msg='Whatever')

Then it raises a different error

AttributeError: 'InteractiveShellEmbed' object has no attribute 'set_completer'

Am I missing something here? I am using Python 2.6.1. Thanks a lot.

[takluyver]

The first error (TraitError) is already fixed in trunk, at least for me - it now expects a unicode string, and gets one. The set_completer error still occurs, though.

[takluyver]

Fix function call in terminal embed code.

Closed by 6301a14

[takluyver]

OK, it looks like we'd renamed that function to set_readline_completer. Thanks for the report - let us know if you find more problems.