IPython.terminal.magics:TerminalMagics.cpaste

Extended Summary

You must terminate the block with '--' (two minus-signs) or Ctrl-D alone on the line. You can also provide your own sentinel with '%paste -s %%' ('%%' is the new sentinel for this operation).

The block is dedented prior to execution to enable execution of method definitions. '>' and '+' characters at the beginning of a line are ignored, to allow pasting directly from e-mails, diff files and doctests (the '...' continuation prompt is also stripped). The executed block is also assigned to variable named 'pasted_block' for later editing with '%edit pasted_block'.

You can also pass a variable name as an argument, e.g. '%cpaste foo'. This assigns the pasted block to variable 'foo' as string, without dedenting or executing it (preceding >>> and + is still stripped)

'%cpaste -r' re-executes the block previously entered by cpaste. '%cpaste -q' suppresses any additional output messages.

Do not be alarmed by garbled output on Windows (it's a readline bug). Just press enter and type -- (and press enter again) and the block will be what was just pasted.

Shell escapes are not supported (yet).