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.. Objectives
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.. By the end of this tutorial you will be able to
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.. #. Retrieve your ipython history 
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.. #. View a part of the history 
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.. #. Save a part of your history to a file. 
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.. #. Run a script from within ipython 
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.. Prerequisites
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..   1. Embellishing Plots
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.. Author              : Nishanth Amuluru
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   Internal Reviewer   : 
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   External Reviewer   :
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   Checklist OK?       : <put date stamp here, if OK> [2010-10-05]
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Script
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Hello friends and welcome to the tutorial on Additional Features of IPython
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{{{ Show the slide containing title }}}
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{{{ Show the slide containing the outline slide }}}
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In this tutorial, we shall look at additional features of IPython that help us
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to retreive the commands that we type on the interpreter and then save them
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into a file and run it.
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Let us start ipython with pylab loaded, by typing
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    $ ipython -pylab
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on the terminal
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{{{ shit to terminal and type ipython -pylab }}}
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We shall first make a plot and then view the history and save it.
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    x = linspace(-2*pi, 2*pi, 100)
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    plot(x, xsinx(x))
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xsin(x) is actually x * sin(x)
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    plot(x, x*sin(x))
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    plot(x, sin(x))
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    xlabel("x")
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    ylabel("$f(x)$")   
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    title("x and xsin")
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We now have the plot. Let us look at the commands that we have typed in. The
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history can be retreived by using =%hist= command. Type
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    %hist
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As you can see, it displays a list of recent commands that we typed. Every
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command has a number in front, to specify in which order and when it was typed.
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Please note that there is a % sign before the hist command. This implies that 
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%hist is a command that is specific to IPython and not available in vannila 
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Python interpreter. These type of commands are called as magic commands.
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Also note that, the =%hist= itself is a command and is displayed as the most
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recent command. This implies that anything we type in is stored as history, 
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irrespective of whether it is command or an error or IPython magic command.
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If we want only the recent 5 to be displayed, we pass the number as an argument
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to =%hist= command. Hence
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    %hist 5 
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displays the recent 5 commands, inclusive of the =%hist= command.
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The default number is 40.
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{{{ Pause here and try out the following exercises }}}
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%% 1 %% Read through the documentation of %hist and find out how to
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        list all the commands between 5 and 10
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{{{ continue from paused state }}}
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As we can see from =%hist= documentation,
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    %hist 5 10
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displays the commands from 5 to 10
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Now that we have the history, we would like to save the required line of code
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from history. This is possible by using the =%save= command.
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Before we do that, let us first look at history and identify what lines of code
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we require.Type
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    %hist
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{{{ point to the lines }}}
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The first command is linspace. But second command is a command that gave us an
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error. Hence we do not need seconf. The commands from third to sixth are 
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required. The seventh command although is correct, we do not need it since we
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are setting the title correctly in the eigthth command.
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So we need first third to sixth and the eigthth command for our program.
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Hence the syntax of =%save= is
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    %save /home/fossee/plot_script.py 1 3-6 8
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{{{ point to the output of the command }}}
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The command saves first and then third to sixth and eighth lines of code into
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the specified file.
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The first argument to %save is the path of file to save the commands and the
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arguments there after are the commands to be saved in the given order.
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{{{ goto the file and open it and show it }}}
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{{{ Pause here and try out the following exercises }}}
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%% 2 %% Change the label on y-axis to "y" and save the lines of code
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        accordingly
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{{{ continue from paused state }}}
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we use the command =ylabel= on interpreter as
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    ylabel("y")
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and then do
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    %save /home/fossee/example_plot.py 1 3-6 10
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Now that we have the required lines of code in a file, let us learn how to run
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the file as a python script.
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We use the IPython magic command =%run= to do this. Type
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   %run -i /home/fossee/plot_script.py
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The script runs but we do not see the plot. This happens because we are running
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a script and we are not in interactive mode anymore.
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Hence on your terminal type
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    show()
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to show the plot.
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{{{ Pause here and try out the following exercises }}}
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%% 3 %% Use %hist and %save and create a script that has show in it and run it
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        to produce and show the plot.
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{{{ continue from paused state }}}
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We first look at the history using
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    %hist 20
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Then save the script using
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    %save /home/fossee/show_included.py 1 3-6 8 10 13
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    %run -i /home/fossee/show_included.py
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We get the desired plot.
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The reason for including a -i after run is to tell the interpreter that if any
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name is not found in script, search for it in the interpreter. Hence all these
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sin, plot, pi and show which are not available in script, are taken from the
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interpreter and used to run the script.
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{{{ Pause here and try out the following exercises }}}
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%% 4 %% Run the script without using the -i option. Do you find any difference?
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{{{ continue from paused state }}}
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We see that it raises nameerror saying the name linspace is not found.
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{{{ Show summary slide }}}
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This brings us to the end of the tutorial.
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we have looked at 
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 * Retreiving history using =%hist= command
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 * Vieweing only a part of history by passing an argument to %hist
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 * saving the required lines of code in required order using %save
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 * using %run -i command to run the saved script
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{{{ Show the "sponsored by FOSSEE" slide }}}
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#[Nishanth]: Will add this line after all of us fix on one.
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This tutorial was created as a part of FOSSEE project, NME ICT, MHRD India
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Hope you have enjoyed and found it useful.
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Thank you!
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