Automagically import missing modules in IPython.
Project description
Automagically import missing modules in IPython: instead of
In [1]: plt.plot([1, 2], [3, 4]) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NameError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-1-994ba2bf13c0> in <module>() ----> 1 plt.plot([1, 2], [3, 4]) NameError: name 'plt' is not defined In [2]: from matplotlib import pyplot as plt In [3]: plt.plot([1, 2], [3, 4]) Out[3]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D at 0x7f73f0179198>]
do what I mean:
In [1]: plt.plot([1, 2], [3, 4]) Autoimport: from matplotlib import pyplot as plt Out[1]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D at 0x7f7e253552b0>]
Inspired from @OrangeFlash81’s version, with many improvements:
Does not rely on re-execution, but instead hooks the user namespace; thus, safe even in the presence of side effects, and works for tab completion and magics too.
Learns your preferred aliases from the history – plt is not hardcoded to alias matplotlib.pyplot, just found because you previously imported pyplot under this alias.
Suppresses irrelevant chained tracebacks.
Auto-imports submodules.
pip-installable.
To see auto imports from the current session: %autoimport -l
To clear the cache for a symbol with multiple possible imports: %autoimport -c SYMBOL
Installation
As usual, install using pip:
$ pip install ipython-autoimport # from PyPI
$ pip install git+https://github.com/anntzer/ipython-autoimport # from GithubThen, append the output of python -m ipython_autoimport to the ipython_config.py file in the directory printed by ipython profile locate (typically ~/.ipython/profile_default/).
If you don’t have such a file at all, you can use ipython profile create.
Run tests with pytest.
Limitations
Constructs such as
class C: auto_imported_value
will not work, because they are run using the class locals (rather than the patched locals); patching globals would not work because LOAD_NAME queries globals using PyDict_GetItem exactly (note that it queries locals using PyObject_GetItem; also, LOAD_GLOBALS queries both globals and builtins using PyObject_GetItem so we could possibly get away with patching the builtins dict instead, but that seems a bit too invasive…).
When using Jedi autocompletion (the default if Jedi is installed as of IPython 7.2), trying to tab-complete not-yet-imported global names to trigger an import fails, because Jedi purposefully converts the global dict to a namespace object and looks up attributes using getattr_static. Jedi can be disabled by adding c.Completer.use_jedi = False to the ipython_config.py file.
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