Pretty print in IPython

[Tobia...@gmx.de]

Hello,

I'm using sage in an existing Jupyter notebook (that is using a 'normal' Python backend, and *not* sage). This works great except that all the output is plain text instead of a nice latex or image presentation (symbolic expressions, plots, ...).

I was able to activate pretty printing with the following code:

from sage.repl.rich_output.backend_ipython import BackendIPythonNotebook

backend = BackendIPythonNotebook()

backend.get_display_manager().switch_backend(backend, shell=get_ipython())

I feel like this a bit hacky. Is there a cleaner solution? Perhaps I'm looking for something like sympy's init_printing() method (https://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorial/printing.html).

Thanks!

Tobias