Question

I’m using ipython with qtconsole.
A feature I’m missing from the regular console is to search the console output.
I’d expect to see it under the Edit menu.

Is there a way to do it?

Answer 1

I don’t know of that feature, but you can take advantage of the Out variable (also available as _oh) that is automatically exposed in the ipython console. Basically it’s a dictionary in which the keys are the line numbers for which some kind of result was returned and the values are the results themselves. Hence, if you look for something in Out.values() using any python code you prefer should be useful to find what you’re looking for.