Thomas Kluyver

IMO we should simply declare that the protocol requires JSON packing (making this issue obsolete). This is what everyone uses anyway, except maybe the parallel machinery, which is a special...

I'm not sure when this got changed, but `?`, along with all operators, now shows up in the default text colour of the terminal: 

What did it do before, or what should it ideally be doing?

I've just tried this in our test Windows server. In both plain Python and IPython, pressing `Ctrl-Z` shows up as `^Z` in the input. Putting it in a string shows...

I can replicate it. Could it be something to do with piping output vs stdout being a tty? But when I try piping `git shortlog -s` to a file in...

I've just experimented: the distinction appears to be one of whether _stdin_, not stdout, is a pipe.

@jakobgager : yes, Carlos, Damian Avila and I had a chat at SciPy about making Spyder a nicely integrated desktop wrapper around the notebook. We hope to build a 'notebook...

2 is already in place, it's called an `object_info_request` IIRC. It doesn't yet have provisions for alternative formats and styling, though. Also, a heads up: IPython probably won't do GSoC....

I don't think there's anything wrong here. Programmes are not expected to remove arguments they recognise from `sys.argv` - argparse, the standard Python library for handling command line options, does...

Thanks @bnaul . Also pinging @willingc, who works quite a bit on our own docs.