Terminal IPython options

InteractiveShellApp.code_to_run : Unicode

Default: ''

Execute the given command string.

InteractiveShellApp.exec_PYTHONSTARTUP : Bool

Default: True

Run the file referenced by the PYTHONSTARTUP environment variable at IPython startup.

InteractiveShellApp.exec_files : List

Default: []

List of files to run at IPython startup.

InteractiveShellApp.exec_lines : List

Default: []

lines of code to run at IPython startup.

InteractiveShellApp.extensions : List

Default: []

A list of dotted module names of IPython extensions to load.

InteractiveShellApp.extra_extension : Unicode

Default: ''

dotted module name of an IPython extension to load.

InteractiveShellApp.file_to_run : Unicode

Default: ''

A file to be run

InteractiveShellApp.gui : ‘glut’|’gtk’|’gtk2’|’gtk3’|’osx’|’pyglet’|’qt’|’qt4’|’qt5’|’tk’|’wx’|’gtk2’|’qt4’

Default: None

Enable GUI event loop integration with any of (‘glut’, ‘gtk’, ‘gtk2’, ‘gtk3’, ‘osx’, ‘pyglet’, ‘qt’, ‘qt4’, ‘qt5’, ‘tk’, ‘wx’, ‘gtk2’, ‘qt4’).

InteractiveShellApp.hide_initial_ns : Bool

Default: True

Should variables loaded at startup (by startup files, exec_lines, etc.) be hidden from tools like %who?

InteractiveShellApp.matplotlib : ‘auto’|’agg’|’gtk’|’gtk3’|’inline’|’ipympl’|’nbagg’|’notebook’|’osx’|’pdf’|’ps’|’qt’|’qt4’|’qt5’|’svg’|’tk’|’widget’|’wx’

Default: None

Configure matplotlib for interactive use with the default matplotlib backend.

InteractiveShellApp.module_to_run : Unicode

Default: ''

Run the module as a script.

InteractiveShellApp.pylab : ‘auto’|’agg’|’gtk’|’gtk3’|’inline’|’ipympl’|’nbagg’|’notebook’|’osx’|’pdf’|’ps’|’qt’|’qt4’|’qt5’|’svg’|’tk’|’widget’|’wx’

Default: None

Pre-load matplotlib and numpy for interactive use, selecting a particular matplotlib backend and loop integration.

InteractiveShellApp.pylab_import_all : Bool

Default: True

If true, IPython will populate the user namespace with numpy, pylab, etc. and an import * is done from numpy and pylab, when using pylab mode.

When False, pylab mode should not import any names into the user namespace.

InteractiveShellApp.reraise_ipython_extension_failures : Bool

Default: False

Reraise exceptions encountered loading IPython extensions?

Application.log_datefmt : Unicode

Default: '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'

The date format used by logging formatters for %(asctime)s

Application.log_format : Unicode

Default: '[%(name)s]%(highlevel)s %(message)s'

The Logging format template

Application.log_level : 0|10|20|30|40|50|’DEBUG’|’INFO’|’WARN’|’ERROR’|’CRITICAL’

Default: 30

Set the log level by value or name.

BaseIPythonApplication.auto_create : Bool

Default: False

Whether to create profile dir if it doesn’t exist

BaseIPythonApplication.copy_config_files : Bool

Default: False

Whether to install the default config files into the profile dir. If a new profile is being created, and IPython contains config files for that profile, then they will be staged into the new directory. Otherwise, default config files will be automatically generated.

BaseIPythonApplication.extra_config_file : Unicode

Default: ''

Path to an extra config file to load.

If specified, load this config file in addition to any other IPython config.

BaseIPythonApplication.ipython_dir : Unicode

Default: ''

The name of the IPython directory. This directory is used for logging configuration (through profiles), history storage, etc. The default is usually $HOME/.ipython. This option can also be specified through the environment variable IPYTHONDIR.

BaseIPythonApplication.overwrite : Bool

Default: False

Whether to overwrite existing config files when copying

BaseIPythonApplication.profile : Unicode

Default: 'default'

The IPython profile to use.

BaseIPythonApplication.verbose_crash : Bool

Default: False

Create a massive crash report when IPython encounters what may be an internal error. The default is to append a short message to the usual traceback

TerminalIPythonApp.display_banner : Bool

Default: True

Whether to display a banner upon starting IPython.

TerminalIPythonApp.force_interact : Bool

Default: False

If a command or file is given via the command-line, e.g. ‘ipython foo.py’, start an interactive shell after executing the file or command.

TerminalIPythonApp.interactive_shell_class : Type

Default: 'IPython.terminal.interactiveshell.TerminalInteractiveShell'

Class to use to instantiate the TerminalInteractiveShell object. Useful for custom Frontends

TerminalIPythonApp.quick : Bool

Default: False

Start IPython quickly by skipping the loading of config files.

InteractiveShell.ast_node_interactivity : ‘all’|’last’|’last_expr’|’none’

Default: 'last_expr'

‘all’, ‘last’, ‘last_expr’ or ‘none’, specifying which nodes should be run interactively (displaying output from expressions).

InteractiveShell.ast_transformers : List

Default: []

A list of ast.NodeTransformer subclass instances, which will be applied to user input before code is run.

InteractiveShell.autocall : 0|1|2

Default: 0

Make IPython automatically call any callable object even if you didn’t type explicit parentheses. For example, ‘str 43’ becomes ‘str(43)’ automatically. The value can be ‘0’ to disable the feature, ‘1’ for ‘smart’ autocall, where it is not applied if there are no more arguments on the line, and ‘2’ for ‘full’ autocall, where all callable objects are automatically called (even if no arguments are present).

InteractiveShell.autoindent : Bool

Default: True

Autoindent IPython code entered interactively.

InteractiveShell.automagic : Bool

Default: True

Enable magic commands to be called without the leading %.

InteractiveShell.banner1 : Unicode

Default: 'Python 3.7.9 (default, Oct 19 2020, 15:13:17) \\nType "copyri...

The part of the banner to be printed before the profile

InteractiveShell.banner2 : Unicode

Default: ''

The part of the banner to be printed after the profile

InteractiveShell.cache_size : Int

Default: 1000

Set the size of the output cache. The default is 1000, you can change it permanently in your config file. Setting it to 0 completely disables the caching system, and the minimum value accepted is 20 (if you provide a value less than 20, it is reset to 0 and a warning is issued). This limit is defined because otherwise you’ll spend more time re-flushing a too small cache than working

InteractiveShell.color_info : Bool

Default: True

Use colors for displaying information about objects. Because this information is passed through a pager (like ‘less’), and some pagers get confused with color codes, this capability can be turned off.

InteractiveShell.colors : ‘Neutral’|’NoColor’|’LightBG’|’Linux’

Default: 'Neutral'

Set the color scheme (NoColor, Neutral, Linux, or LightBG).

InteractiveShell.debug : Bool

Default: False

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InteractiveShell.deep_reload : Bool

Default: False

Deprecated

Will be removed in IPython 6.0

Enable deep (recursive) reloading by default. IPython can use the deep_reload module which reloads changes in modules recursively (it replaces the reload() function, so you don’t need to change anything to use it). deep_reload forces a full reload of modules whose code may have changed, which the default reload() function does not. When deep_reload is off, IPython will use the normal reload(), but deep_reload will still be available as dreload().

InteractiveShell.disable_failing_post_execute : Bool

Default: False

Don’t call post-execute functions that have failed in the past.

InteractiveShell.display_page : Bool

Default: False

If True, anything that would be passed to the pager will be displayed as regular output instead.

InteractiveShell.enable_html_pager : Bool

Default: False

(Provisional API) enables html representation in mime bundles sent to pagers.

InteractiveShell.history_length : Int

Default: 10000

Total length of command history

InteractiveShell.history_load_length : Int

Default: 1000

The number of saved history entries to be loaded into the history buffer at startup.

InteractiveShell.ipython_dir : Unicode

Default: ''

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InteractiveShell.logappend : Unicode

Default: ''

Start logging to the given file in append mode. Use logfile to specify a log file to overwrite logs to.

InteractiveShell.logfile : Unicode

Default: ''

The name of the logfile to use.

InteractiveShell.logstart : Bool

Default: False

Start logging to the default log file in overwrite mode. Use logappend to specify a log file to append logs to.

InteractiveShell.object_info_string_level : 0|1|2

Default: 0

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InteractiveShell.pdb : Bool

Default: False

Automatically call the pdb debugger after every exception.

InteractiveShell.prompt_in1 : Unicode

Default: 'In [\\#]: '

Deprecated since IPython 4.0 and ignored since 5.0, set TerminalInteractiveShell.prompts object directly.

InteractiveShell.prompt_in2 : Unicode

Default: '   .\\D.: '

Deprecated since IPython 4.0 and ignored since 5.0, set TerminalInteractiveShell.prompts object directly.

InteractiveShell.prompt_out : Unicode

Default: 'Out[\\#]: '

Deprecated since IPython 4.0 and ignored since 5.0, set TerminalInteractiveShell.prompts object directly.

InteractiveShell.prompts_pad_left : Bool

Default: True

Deprecated since IPython 4.0 and ignored since 5.0, set TerminalInteractiveShell.prompts object directly.

InteractiveShell.quiet : Bool

Default: False

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InteractiveShell.separate_in : SeparateUnicode

Default: '\\n'

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InteractiveShell.separate_out : SeparateUnicode

Default: ''

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InteractiveShell.separate_out2 : SeparateUnicode

Default: ''

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InteractiveShell.show_rewritten_input : Bool

Default: True

Show rewritten input, e.g. for autocall.

InteractiveShell.sphinxify_docstring : Bool

Default: False

Enables rich html representation of docstrings. (This requires the docrepr module).

InteractiveShell.wildcards_case_sensitive : Bool

Default: True

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InteractiveShell.xmode : ‘Context’|’Plain’|’Verbose’

Default: 'Context'

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TerminalInteractiveShell.confirm_exit : Bool

Default: True

Set to confirm when you try to exit IPython with an EOF (Control-D in Unix, Control-Z/Enter in Windows). By typing ‘exit’ or ‘quit’, you can force a direct exit without any confirmation.

TerminalInteractiveShell.display_completions : ‘column’|’multicolumn’|’readlinelike’

Default: 'multicolumn'

Options for displaying tab completions, ‘column’, ‘multicolumn’, and ‘readlinelike’. These options are for prompt_toolkit, see prompt_toolkit documentation for more information.

TerminalInteractiveShell.editing_mode : Unicode

Default: 'emacs'

Shortcut style to use at the prompt. ‘vi’ or ‘emacs’.

TerminalInteractiveShell.editor : Unicode

Default: 'vi'

Set the editor used by IPython (default to $EDITOR/vi/notepad).

TerminalInteractiveShell.extra_open_editor_shortcuts : Bool

Default: False

Enable vi (v) or Emacs (C-X C-E) shortcuts to open an external editor. This is in addition to the F2 binding, which is always enabled.

TerminalInteractiveShell.highlight_matching_brackets : Bool

Default: True

Highlight matching brackets.

TerminalInteractiveShell.highlighting_style : Union

Default: traitlets.Undefined

The name or class of a Pygments style to use for syntax highlighting. To see available styles, run pygmentize -L styles.

TerminalInteractiveShell.highlighting_style_overrides : Dict

Default: {}

Override highlighting format for specific tokens

TerminalInteractiveShell.mouse_support : Bool

Default: False

Enable mouse support in the prompt

TerminalInteractiveShell.prompts_class : Type

Default: 'IPython.terminal.prompts.Prompts'

Class used to generate Prompt token for prompt_toolkit

TerminalInteractiveShell.simple_prompt : Bool

Default: True

Use raw_input for the REPL, without completion and prompt colors.

Useful when controlling IPython as a subprocess, and piping STDIN/OUT/ERR. Known usage are: IPython own testing machinery, and emacs inferior-shell integration through elpy.

This mode default to True if the IPY_TEST_SIMPLE_PROMPT environment variable is set, or the current terminal is not a tty.

TerminalInteractiveShell.space_for_menu : Int

Default: 6

Number of line at the bottom of the screen to reserve for the completion menu

TerminalInteractiveShell.term_title : Bool

Default: True

Automatically set the terminal title

TerminalInteractiveShell.true_color : Bool

Default: False

Use 24bit colors instead of 256 colors in prompt highlighting. If your terminal supports true color, the following command should print ‘TRUECOLOR’ in orange: printf “x1b[38;2;255;100;0mTRUECOLORx1b[0mn”

HistoryAccessor.connection_options : Dict

Default: {}

Options for configuring the SQLite connection

These options are passed as keyword args to sqlite3.connect when establishing database conenctions.

HistoryAccessor.enabled : Bool

Default: True

enable the SQLite history

set enabled=False to disable the SQLite history, in which case there will be no stored history, no SQLite connection, and no background saving thread. This may be necessary in some threaded environments where IPython is embedded.

HistoryAccessor.hist_file : Unicode

Default: ''

Path to file to use for SQLite history database.

By default, IPython will put the history database in the IPython profile directory. If you would rather share one history among profiles, you can set this value in each, so that they are consistent.

Due to an issue with fcntl, SQLite is known to misbehave on some NFS mounts. If you see IPython hanging, try setting this to something on a local disk, e.g:

ipython --HistoryManager.hist_file=/tmp/ipython_hist.sqlite

you can also use the specific value :memory: (including the colon at both end but not the back ticks), to avoid creating an history file.

HistoryManager.db_cache_size : Int

Default: 0

Write to database every x commands (higher values save disk access & power). Values of 1 or less effectively disable caching.

HistoryManager.db_log_output : Bool

Default: False

Should the history database include output? (default: no)

ProfileDir.location : Unicode

Default: ''

Set the profile location directly. This overrides the logic used by the profile option.

BaseFormatter.deferred_printers : Dict

Default: {}

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BaseFormatter.enabled : Bool

Default: True

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BaseFormatter.singleton_printers : Dict

Default: {}

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BaseFormatter.type_printers : Dict

Default: {}

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PlainTextFormatter.float_precision : CUnicode

Default: ''

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PlainTextFormatter.max_seq_length : Int

Default: 1000

Truncate large collections (lists, dicts, tuples, sets) to this size.

Set to 0 to disable truncation.

PlainTextFormatter.max_width : Int

Default: 79

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PlainTextFormatter.newline : Unicode

Default: '\\n'

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PlainTextFormatter.pprint : Bool

Default: True

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PlainTextFormatter.verbose : Bool

Default: False

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Completer.backslash_combining_completions : Bool

Default: True

Enable unicode completions, e.g. alpha<tab> . Includes completion of latex commands, unicode names, and expanding unicode characters back to latex commands.

Completer.greedy : Bool

Default: False

Activate greedy completion PENDING DEPRECTION. this is now mostly taken care of with Jedi.

This will enable completion on elements of lists, results of function calls, etc., but can be unsafe because the code is actually evaluated on TAB.

IPCompleter.limit_to__all__ : Bool

Default: False

DEPRECATED as of version 5.0.

Instruct the completer to use __all__ for the completion

Specifically, when completing on object.<tab>.

When True: only those names in obj.__all__ will be included.

When False [default]: the __all__ attribute is ignored

IPCompleter.merge_completions : Bool

Default: True

Whether to merge completion results into a single list

If False, only the completion results from the first non-empty completer will be returned.

IPCompleter.omit__names : 0|1|2

Default: 2

Instruct the completer to omit private method names

Specifically, when completing on object.<tab>.

When 2 [default]: all names that start with ‘_’ will be excluded.

When 1: all ‘magic’ names (__foo__) will be excluded.

When 0: nothing will be excluded.

ScriptMagics.script_magics : List

Default: []

Extra script cell magics to define

This generates simple wrappers of %%script foo as %%foo.

If you want to add script magics that aren’t on your path, specify them in script_paths

ScriptMagics.script_paths : Dict

Default: {}

Dict mapping short ‘ruby’ names to full paths, such as ‘/opt/secret/bin/ruby’

Only necessary for items in script_magics where the default path will not find the right interpreter.

StoreMagics.autorestore : Bool

Default: False

If True, any %store-d variables will be automatically restored when IPython starts.