Cell Magics - not so magic

[Claude Geller]

Hi -

While trying to run certain commands for what is referenced as "cell magics" - I get errors.

This output demonstrates the issue I'm having:

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> %pwd
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    %pwd
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> %ls
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    %ls
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> %quickref
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    %quickref
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

It clearly doesn't like the "%" sign. i've tried a number of different commands that are supposed to be used in conjunction with a leading "%" sign - but none of them work.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.  THANKS!

[Nehal J Wani]

Hi,

I think what you are looking for is the ipython prompt, and not the python prompt.

(ipython) thebox:~ nwani$ python

Python 3.6.5 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, Mar 29 2018, 13:14:23)

[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Clang 4.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_401/final)] on darwin

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> %pwd

  File "<stdin>", line 1

    %pwd

    ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>>

(ipython) thebox:~ nwani$ ipython

Python 3.6.5 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, Mar 29 2018, 13:14:23)

Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information

IPython 6.3.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.

In [1]: %pwd

Out[1]: '/Users/nwani'

In [2]:

Do you really want to exit ([y]/n)? y

Cheers!

Nehal J Wani

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