Ipython common problems

Question

I love iPython's so many features, magic functions.

I recently upgraded to the latest 0.10 version. But I face following common problems:

• %hist one of the most frequently used magic functions, doesn't exist.
• dreload doesn't seems to work (works only for modules?).
• run -d for debugging doesn't work
• At times, typed characters are not displayed on the console*
• By default even the ? and ?? didn't work. I had to hack for that to work*

*The last 2 problems are true for the previous versions too.

I am on Ubuntu 9.04 with Python 2.6.2 and IPython 0.10

Answer 1

sounds like an issue with your particular setup. ? and ?? have always worked on my machine, hist is still a magic function, and dreload has always only worked for modules--what else would it do?

as for the debug thing, it's a known issue with python 2.6: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipython/+bug/381069