Re: ipython notebook config options ignored unless placed in regular config file

the iptyhon_notebook config file apply only the web app , the kernel. you
want to put kernel psecific config in ipython_kernel.


On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Rob Clewley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using OS X 10.6.8 with ipython that I upgraded from v1 (from fink)
> to 3.0.0 (using pip). Everything seems to work fine, except an issue
> with configuration.
>
> >From the documentation and my own testing, I am having trouble
> understanding the expected behavior of config options in my
> .ipython/profile_default/ipython_config.py versus the
> ipython_notebook_config.py.
>
> I want to auto-load a couple of extensions and modules for my
> notebooks but not for my regular ipython sessions (partly because
> those loads create warnings, but it just seems that I'm supposed to be
> able to keep these configurations separate). It seemed to make sense
> that config options that apply only to the notebook go in the notebook
> config. But I can only get the notebook to honour my choices when I
> put the options in ipython_config.py. It seems to ignore the notebook
> config, and I am stuck with non-notebook ipython also loading these
> modules. Am I doing something wrong?
>
> The documentation does not explicitly address the distinctions, and
> the inline comments in these files do not make reference to the
> distinction between these two config files, only to inheritance of
> TerminalIPythonApp from Application and InteractiveShellApp (but same
> class names in both config files). What is the rule for notebook
> config reading? Does ipython read from one first, then the other?
> Currently, it seems to ignore the ipython_notebook_config.py
> altogether, so why is it there?
>
> Maybe it's related to this from 2013:
> http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/ipython-user/2013-February/012170.html
> But the commit that fixed his problem is in the master repo now, so
> maybe not...
>
> The result of ipython notebook --debug is
>
> [D 10:37:52.595 NotebookApp] Config changed:
> [D 10:37:52.595 NotebookApp] {'NotebookApp': {'log_level': 10}}
> [D 10:37:52.596 NotebookApp] IPYTHONDIR set to: /Users/robclewley/.ipython
> [I 10:37:52.598 NotebookApp] Using existing profile dir:
> u'/Users/robclewley/.ipython/profile_default'
> [D 10:37:52.598 NotebookApp] Searching path
>
> [u'/Users/robclewley/Work/literate_modeling/scenario-local-linear/notebook/project',
> u'/Users/robclewley/.ipython/profile_default',
> '/usr/local/etc/ipython', '/etc/ipython'] for config files
> [D 10:37:52.598 NotebookApp] Attempting to load config file:
> ipython_config.py
> [D 10:37:52.600 NotebookApp] Loaded config file:
> /Users/robclewley/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_config.py
> [D 10:37:52.601 NotebookApp] Config changed:
> [D 10:37:52.601 NotebookApp] {'TerminalInteractiveShell': {'logstart':
> True}, 'NotebookApp': {'log_level': 10}, 'TerminalIPythonApp':
> {'matplotlib': 'osx'}}
> [D 10:37:52.602 NotebookApp] Attempting to load config file:
> ipython_notebook_config.py
> [D 10:37:52.604 NotebookApp] Loaded config file:
> /Users/robclewley/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_notebook_config.py
> [D 10:37:52.605 NotebookApp] Config changed:
> [D 10:37:52.605 NotebookApp] {'TerminalInteractiveShell': {'logstart':
> True}, 'NotebookApp': {'log_level': 10}, 'InteractiveShellApp':
> {'exec_lines': ['import notebook_importing'], 'gui': 'osx', 'pylab':
> 'osx', 'matplotlib': 'osx', 'extensions': ['yaml_magic',
> 'autoreload'], 'extra_extension': 'yaml_magic'}, 'TerminalIPythonApp':
> {'extra_extension': 'yaml_magic', 'extensions': ['yaml_magic'],
> 'matplotlib': 'osx'}}
> [D 10:37:52.611 NotebookApp] searching for local mathjax in
> [u'/Users/robclewley/.ipython/nbextensions',
> '/sw/share/jupyter/nbextensions',
> '/usr/local/share/jupyter/nbextensions',
> '/usr/share/jupyter/nbextensions']
> [D 10:37:52.613 NotebookApp] searching for local mathjax in
> [u'/Users/robclewley/.ipython/profile_default/static',
> '/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/html/static']
> [I 10:37:52.613 NotebookApp] Using MathJax from CDN:
> https://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js
>
> For instance, invoking the magic command %%yaml (from my custom
> extension) in the notebook results in a complaint that the command is
> not recognized. If, instead, I set these extensions to be loaded in
> ipython_config.py, then the notebook accepts %%yaml immediately. In
> this case, the debug output is:
>
> [D 10:46:50.330 NotebookApp] Config changed:
> [D 10:46:50.330 NotebookApp] {'NotebookApp': {'log_level': 10}}
> [D 10:46:50.331 NotebookApp] IPYTHONDIR set to: /Users/robclewley/.ipython
> [I 10:46:50.332 NotebookApp] Using existing profile dir:
> u'/Users/robclewley/.ipython/profile_default'
> [D 10:46:50.332 NotebookApp] Searching path
>
> [u'/Users/robclewley/Work/literate_modeling/scenario-local-linear/notebook/project',
> u'/Users/robclewley/.ipython/profile_default',
> '/usr/local/etc/ipython', '/etc/ipython'] for config files
> [D 10:46:50.332 NotebookApp] Attempting to load config file:
> ipython_config.py
> [D 10:46:50.335 NotebookApp] Loaded config file:
> /Users/robclewley/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_config.py
> [D 10:46:50.336 NotebookApp] Config changed:
> [D 10:46:50.337 NotebookApp] {'TerminalInteractiveShell': {'logstart':
> True}, 'NotebookApp': {'log_level': 10}, 'InteractiveShellApp':
> {'extensions': ['yaml_magic', 'autoreload']}, 'TerminalIPythonApp':
> {'matplotlib': 'osx'}}
> [D 10:46:50.337 NotebookApp] Attempting to load config file:
> ipython_notebook_config.py
> [D 10:46:50.338 NotebookApp] Loaded config file:
> /Users/robclewley/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_notebook_config.py
> [D 10:46:50.339 NotebookApp] Config changed:
> [D 10:46:50.340 NotebookApp] {'TerminalInteractiveShell': {'logstart':
> True}, 'NotebookApp': {'log_level': 10}, 'InteractiveShellApp':
> {'extra_extension': 'yaml_magic', 'extensions': ['yaml_magic',
> 'autoreload'], 'exec_lines': ['import notebook_importing'], 'gui':
> 'osx', 'pylab': 'osx', 'matplotlib': 'osx'}, 'TerminalIPythonApp':
> {'extra_extension': 'yaml_magic', 'extensions': ['yaml_magic'],
> 'matplotlib': 'osx'}}
> [D 10:46:50.345 NotebookApp] searching for local mathjax in
> [u'/Users/robclewley/.ipython/nbextensions',
> '/sw/share/jupyter/nbextensions',
> '/usr/local/share/jupyter/nbextensions',
> '/usr/share/jupyter/nbextensions']
> [D 10:46:50.345 NotebookApp] searching for local mathjax in
> [u'/Users/robclewley/.ipython/profile_default/static',
> '/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/html/static']
>
> Thanks.
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