Re: [sage-devel] load_ipython_extension()

2015-06-18 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2015-06-17 17:40, William Stein wrote: Also IPython is large and takes a long time to load. In the past I've often tried to keep IPython from loading by default if it isn't needed, to reduce the startup time (similar to not importing numpy by default). Needs review at

[sage-devel] load_ipython_extension()

2015-06-17 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
Do we really need this line in src/sage/__init__.py from sage.repl.ipython_extension import load_ipython_extension This line forces *every use of Sage* to import IPython. In particular, it makes sage-download-file depend on IPython which is annoying since a broken IPython means no more

Re: [sage-devel] load_ipython_extension()

2015-06-17 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Jeroen Demeyer jdeme...@cage.ugent.be wrote: Do we really need this line in src/sage/__init__.py from sage.repl.ipython_extension import load_ipython_extension This line forces *every use of Sage* to import IPython. In particular, it makes