%magic help: display line and cell magics in alphabetical order.

[bfroehle]

%magic help: display line and cell magics in alphabetical order.

[bfroehle]

While we are on the subject of %magic, any idea why %magic -brief returns a string, instead of just printing it?

It seems odd to have to run:

x = %magic -brief
print x

[bfroehle]

Test results for commit cba3f1f merged into master
Platform: linux2

• python2.7: OK
• python3.2: OK (libraries not available: oct2py pymongo rpy2 wx wx.aui)

Not available for testing: python2.6, python3.1

[fperez]

@bfroehle, I think %magic -brief was added for doc generation at some point, which is obviously a bit of a hack, though I'm not totally sure anymore.

The right answer now would obviously be to move that functionality into the magics manager as an api call, and let the magic call be strictly for human-friendly use with direct printing.

[fperez]

Change is otherwise clean, thanks! Merging now.