[ Sorry for the cross-post, but I know this is something that has hit quite a few people on this list. If you have any questions on it, please ask on the ipython list, this is just an FYI ]
Hi all, there's a very old, *extremely* annoying bug that multiple people have asked about (on list and in person) that is finally just fixed. The behavior was that at some point during a normal session, after a call to 'foo?', your terminal would be totally messed up, with no displayed input. You could (blindly) type !reset to issue the system terminal reset command, but that would only help until the next time foo? was called, and the problem would then return. Most of us would end up just quitting ipython and restarting, often losing useful session state. The problem with this is that we never knew how to reliably reproduce it... Anyway, it's fixed now in current bzr: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ipython/ipython/stable-dev/revision/79 I don't actually know how to trigger it, but it hit me during an important session where I really couldn't afford to lose what I was working on, and I managed to track it down to what I'm pretty sure is a curses bug. Basically curses.initscr() fails to correctly initialize the terminal sometimes (I still don't have a clue why), and after that it's all lost. But it turns out that via termios one can in fact reset the terminal state reliably , so now we unconditionally do that. Anyway, I figured this would be worth mentioning here, since I know the problem is one that quite often bites people in the middle of work sessions an it can be very, very annoying. Cheers, f back to what I was busy doing, with my terminal now fully functional again... :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
