Important
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Module: utils.process
Utilities for working with external processes.
1 Class
2 Functions
- IPython.utils.process.find_cmd(cmd)
Find absolute path to executable cmd in a cross platform manner.
This function tries to determine the full path to a command line program using
which
on Unix/Linux/OS X andwin32api
on Windows. Most of the time it will use the version that is first on the usersPATH
.Warning, don’t use this to find IPython command line programs as there is a risk you will find the wrong one. Instead find those using the following code and looking for the application itself:
import sys argv = [sys.executable, '-m', 'IPython']
- Parameters:
cmd (str) – The command line program to look for.
- IPython.utils.process.abbrev_cwd()
Return abbreviated version of cwd, e.g. d:mydir