ipython / vs \ in readline on MS Windows (and ipython help grepper)

[bdb112]

Q1/ I run a standard python ditribution with ipython and readline
under cygwin. The tab filename completion works fine in the OS (bash
shell) as expected, and tab filename completion at the ipython command
line works, but with MS style path separators (backslash: run examples
\test.py) which the run command itself interprets unix style
ERROR: File `examplestest.py` not found.

Also Q2/ can I "less" or "grep" the output from help(my_fun)

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 21 2008, 13:11:45) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
(Intel)]
IPython 0.8.4 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.

 

[bdb112]

More info:

import readline
? readline
c:\python25\lib\site-packages\ipython\rlineimpl.py
$Id: Magic.py 1096 2006-01-28 20:08:02Z vivainio $

sys.platform 'win32'
sys.getfilesystemencoding() 'mbcs'
sys.winver '2.5'

$more /usr/local/bin/ipython
#!/bin/bash
C:/Python25/python.exe "C:\Python25\scripts\ipython" -pylab $*

(Same problem if I use the windows Start menu Ipython IPython and
pysh)

 

[Jason Scheirer]

Q1/ I run a standard python ditribution with ipython and readline
under cygwin.  The tab filename completion works fine in the OS (bash
shell) as expected, and tab filename completion at the ipython command
line works, but with MS style path separators (backslash: run examples
\test.py) which the run command itself interprets unix style
ERROR: File `examplestest.py` not found.

Also Q2/ can I "less" or "grep" the output from help(my_fun)

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 21 2008, 13:11:45) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
(Intel)]
IPython 0.8.4 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.

Cygwin does not magically change the platform you are on, the fact
that you are on Windows is hard-coded into the Python.exe binary. Look
for references to os.path.sep in IPython. Windows does let you use
forward slashes as path separators, though, so I am not entirely sure
what your issue is.