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Better error message if %paste fails #880

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takluyver opened this issue Oct 15, 2011 · 2 comments
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Better error message if %paste fails #880

takluyver opened this issue Oct 15, 2011 · 2 comments
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The %paste magic can try a number of options, but on Linux it depends on having Tkinter installed. As reported on the mailing list, if Tkinter is missing, the user gets a traceback and an uninformative TryNext exception. We should catch this and provide a more informative message.
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minrk commented Oct 20, 2011

Note that this should also close #211, where it is detected as just not working, presumably on account of the lame error.

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Closed by PR #999, merged in 6c20358.

mattvonrocketstein pushed a commit to mattvonrocketstein/ipython that referenced this issue Nov 3, 2014
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Fix issue ipython#880 - initialize TryNext with args and kwargs.
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Presents a message to the user along with the traceback prompting them to install tkinter.
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