I defined a macro inc in Jupyter Notebook. I can run a macro from another cell. However, the macro cannot be run in the for loop.
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x = 0
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x += 1
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%macro inc 2
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inc
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x
outputs 2
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for _ in range(10): inc
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x
still outputs 2.
The best I came up with right now is using run_cell method
First you need to grab current interactive Ipython shell with get_ipython
ip = get_ipython()
for _ in range(5): ips.run_cell('inc')
This is not a solution that fully satisfies me but it maybe someone else will be able to add something better.
Note: Solution below works for older
Ipython
try just running it as a callable:
for _ in range(10): inc()Ipython macros are instances of IPython.core.macro.Macro
Documentation states that it is just a simple objects storing chunk of history in a variable. And this is true.
In [20]: inc.__dict__
Out[20]: {'value': u'x += 1\n'}
You can also read:
Macro is just a callable that executes a string of IPython