Allow --profile to be passed a dir.

[Carreau]

Would it be possible to have --profile= to also be able to take a directory that will be use as current profile. That would be useful when teaching tutorial to ship the profile dir along the notebooks and ask user to start with shipped profile instead of copying in .ipython/profile.

Yes I know of ProfileDir.location, but it is too complicated IMHO. it woudl be nice to just do clone for example IPython in depth and do $ ipython notebook --profile=./in-depth and get for example some extensions shipped by instructor.

That would kind of complement the new --config flag.

Though ?

[minrk]

IPython.parallel entry points already support this (via --profile-dir), it should be one of the things that propagates upstream when I get rid of BaseParallelApp.

In the meantime, set ProfileDir.location or use IPYTHONDIR env.

[Carreau]

IIRC, --profile-dir allow you to set the directory in which the profile are searched but it is not what I want, I want to explicitely pass the profile basicaly I woudl like the ability to merge:

$ ipyton --ProfileDir.location=~/.ipython/ --profile=default

Into one option

$ ipython --with-profile=~/.ipython/profile_default

[minrk]

Ah, you misunderstand what ProfileDir.location is. ProfileDir.location is the path to the actual profile directory (e.g. ~/.ipython/profile_default), so it's just one step. The two-step is already available with aliases via --ipython-dir or the IPYTHONDIR env variable:

IPYTHONDIR=/tmp/ipython ipython --profile foo
# or
ipython --ipython-dir /tmp/ipython --profile foo

But if you use ProfileDir.location, it's just one step:

ipython --ProfileDir.location=./myprofile

And you can create profiles the same way:

ipython profile create --ProfileDir.location=./myprofile

[Carreau]

Hum... I think I was tired, the text of the option is pretty clear.
+1 to having it directly --profile-dir then. Shoudl I close? Or change it as a reminder to make the --profile-dir flag global ?

[minrk]

You can leave it open marked for 2.0. Hopefully I will get to that, I really want to reduce the amount of unique code in IPython.parallel.

[minrk]

--profile-dir works now.