Question

I’m trying to run a file inside the ipython interpreter.
The documentation makes this sound as simple as ipython file.py in the shell or %run file.py inside the interpreter itself. However, I want to read a file that contains commands to the ipython “system shell”. Here’s an example:

files= !ls
print files

for this type of commands, invoking the interpreter as mentioned above results in SyntaxError, as if it was executed by /usr/bin/python.

Is it possible to run a file from the system shell as if it were executing inside the ipython shell interpreter?

Answer 1

It looks like you can do this if you name your file with an .ipy extension.

sam@blackbird-debian:~
$ cat tmp.ipy
me = !whoami
print me
sam@blackbird-debian:~
$ ipython tmp.ipy
['sam']