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Module: core.application

An application for IPython.

All top-level applications should use the classes in this module for handling configuration and creating configurables.

The job of an Application is to create the master configuration object and then create the configurable objects, passing the config to them.

2 Classes

class IPython.core.application.ProfileAwareConfigLoader(filename, path=None, **kw)

Bases: traitlets.config.loader.PyFileConfigLoader

A Python file config loader that is aware of IPython profiles.

load_subconfig(fname, path=None, profile=None)

Injected into config file namespace as load_subconfig

class IPython.core.application.BaseIPythonApplication(**kwargs)

Bases: traitlets.config.application.Application

__init__(**kwargs)

Create a configurable given a config config.

Parameters:
  • config (Config) – If this is empty, default values are used. If config is a Config instance, it will be used to configure the instance.
  • parent (Configurable instance, optional) – The parent Configurable instance of this object.

Notes

Subclasses of Configurable must call the __init__() method of Configurable before doing anything else and using super():

class MyConfigurable(Configurable):
    def __init__(self, config=None):
        super(MyConfigurable, self).__init__(config=config)
        # Then any other code you need to finish initialization.

This ensures that instances will be configured properly.

excepthook(etype, evalue, tb)

this is sys.excepthook after init_crashhandler

set self.verbose_crash=True to use our full crashhandler, instead of a regular traceback with a short message (crash_handler_lite)

init_config_files()

[optionally] copy default config files into profile dir.

init_crash_handler()

Create a crash handler, typically setting sys.excepthook to it.

init_profile_dir()

initialize the profile dir

initialize(argv=None)

Do the basic steps to configure me.

Override in subclasses.

initialize_subcommand(subc, argv=None)

Initialize a subcommand with argv.

load_config_file(suppress_errors=None)

Load the config file.

By default, errors in loading config are handled, and a warning printed on screen. For testing, the suppress_errors option is set to False, so errors will make tests fail.

supress_errors default value is to be None in which case the behavior default to the one of traitlets.Application.

The default value can be set :
  • to False by setting ‘IPYTHON_SUPPRESS_CONFIG_ERRORS’ environment variable to ‘0’, or ‘false’ (case insensitive).
  • to True by setting ‘IPYTHON_SUPPRESS_CONFIG_ERRORS’ environment variable to ‘1’ or ‘true’ (case insensitive).
  • to None by setting ‘IPYTHON_SUPPRESS_CONFIG_ERRORS’ environment variable to ‘’ (empty string) or leaving it unset.

Any other value are invalid, and will make IPython exit with a non-zero return code.

python_config_loader_class

alias of ProfileAwareConfigLoader

stage_default_config_file()

auto generate default config file, and stage it into the profile.