IPython.terminal.magics:TerminalMagics.paste

Extended Summary

The text is pulled directly from the clipboard without user intervention and printed back on the screen before execution (unless the -q flag is given to force quiet mode).

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. '%paste foo'. This assigns the pasted block to variable 'foo' as string, without executing it (preceding >>> and + is still stripped).

Options:

-r: re-executes the block previously entered by cpaste.

-q: quiet mode: do not echo the pasted text back to the terminal.

IPython statements (magics, shell escapes) are not supported (yet).