Printing the contents of an image file messes up shell text

[nucleartide]

Here's a reproducible test case. Take this image file named tumblr.gif.

Fire up IPython and print the contents of the file.

Bam! What the heck?

Here's my system info.

{'commit_hash': '858d539',
 'commit_source': 'installation',
 'default_encoding': 'UTF-8',
 'ipython_path': '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython',
 'ipython_version': '0.13.2',
 'os_name': 'posix',
 'platform': 'Linux-3.5.0-17-generic-x86_64-with-LinuxMint-14-nadia',
 'sys_executable': '/usr/bin/python',
 'sys_platform': 'linux2',
 'sys_version': '2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2013, 05:13:16) \n[GCC 4.7.2]'}

[minrk]

That's a generic terminal issue, and there isn't anything for IPython to really do about it. Certain binary sequences are interpreted as commands by the terminal emulator (not IPython).