from datetime import datetime import os from random import choice from typing import Any _tips: Any = { # (month, day) "every_year": { (1, 1): "Happy new year!", # European time: # [2/8/25, 23:28:24] Fernando Perez: Hi! Yes, this was my first public # announcement: # [2/8/25, 23:28:25] Fernando Perez: # https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-December/093408.html # [2/8/25, 23:28:55] Fernando Perez: All that started two months earlier # - in October 2001 I read this article: # [2/8/25, 23:28:55] Fernando Perez: # https://web.archive.org/web/20011202000624/http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/10/11/pythonnews.html # [2/8/25, 23:29:05] Fernando Perez: Which is also archived here: # [2/8/25, 23:29:05] Fernando Perez: # https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/weblinux2/orn/interactive_python.html # [2/8/25, 23:29:48] Fernando Perez: That article put me on the trail of # LazyPython, and I also found out (can’t remember where) about IPP # (Interactive Python Prompt), another similar projecd by Janko Hauser. # [2/8/25, 23:30:20] Fernando Perez: A also read an article around that # time, about new features in Python 2.0, which spoke of how # sys.displayhook could be programmed to call any object you wanted. # [2/8/25, 23:31:01] Fernando Perez: Those things together gave me the # idea of implementing a stateful object, the “IPython Prompt”, that # could store a cache of old results, Mathematica-style, and that could # have all kinds of other useful tricks up its sleeve. # [2/8/25, 23:31:17] Fernando Perez: I can’t remember if I did the # prompt stuff first and then read about LazyPython/IPP. # [2/8/25, 23:31:41] Fernando Perez: I do know that, implementation # wise, at first I just did the tiny IPython 0.0.1 that I posted much # later on github as a gist: # [2/8/25, 23:31:55] Fernando Perez: # https://gist.github.com/fperez/1579699 # [2/8/25, 23:32:03] Fernando Perez: But I only shared that publicly # much later. # [2/8/25, 23:33:19] Fernando Perez: I did find out about IPP/LazyPython # sometime in October, contacted Janko and Nathan who told me to use # their code at will but said they were busy with other things, and got # cranking for a few mad weeks on what became the IPython 0.2.0 that I # posted about in that comp.lang.python thread of December 2001. # [2/8/25, 23:33:52] Fernando Perez: That period from Oct 11 to Dec 9 # 2001 was maniacal coding, with very little sleep 🙂 ( 10, 11, ): "IPython's first line of code was written {} years ago by Fernando Pérez".format( datetime.now().year - 2001 ), ( 12, 9, ): "IPython 0.0.2 was announced {} years ago: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-December/093408.html".format( datetime.now().year - 2001 ), ( 3, 8, ): "Today is International Women's Day: https://www.internationalwomensday.com/", ( 3, 31, ): "Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! You are valid. You matter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Transgender_Day_of_Visibility", }, "random": [ "Use `F2` or %edit with no arguments to open an empty editor with a temporary file.", "Run your doctests from within IPython for development and debugging. The special %doctest_mode command toggles a mode where the prompt, output and exceptions display matches as closely as possible that of the default Python interpreter.", "You can use `files = !ls *.png`", "Use the IPython.lib.demo.Demo class to load any Python script as an interactive demo.", "Put a ';' at the end of a line to suppress the printing of output.", "You can use Ctrl-O to force a new line in terminal IPython", "Use `object?` to see the help on `object`, `object??` to view its source", "`?` alone on a line will brings up IPython's help", "You can use `%hist` to view history, see the options with `%history?`", "You can change the editing mode of IPython to behave more like vi, or emacs.", "IPython 9.0+ has hooks to integrate AI/LLM completions.", "Use `%timeit` or `%%timeit`, and the `-r`, `-n`, and `-o` options to easily profile your code.", "Use `ipython --help-all | less` to view all the IPython configuration options.", "Use `--theme`, or the `%colors` magic to change IPython's themes and colors.", "The `%timeit` magic has a `-o` flag, which returns the results, making it easy to plot. See `%timeit?`.", ], } if os.name == "nt": _tips["random"].extend( [ "We can't show you all tips on Windows as sometimes Unicode characters crash the Windows console, please help us debug it." ] ) # unicode may crash windows console, so we filter out tips with non-ASCII characters. _tips["every_year"] = { k: v for k, v in _tips["every_year"].items() if all(ord(char) < 128 for char in v) } else: _tips["random"].extend( [ "You can use LaTeX or Unicode completion, `\\alpha` will insert the α symbol.", "You can find how to type a LaTeX symbol by back-completing it, eg `\\θ` will expand to `\\theta`.", "You can find how to type a Unicode symbol by back-completing it, eg `\\Ⅷ` will expand to `\\ROMAN NUMERAL EIGHT`.", "IPython supports combining unicode identifiers, eg F\\vec will become F⃗, useful for physics equations. Play with \\dot \\ddot and others.", ] ) def pick_tip() -> str: current_date = datetime.now() month, day = current_date.month, current_date.day if (month, day) in _tips["every_year"]: return _tips["every_year"][(month, day)] return choice(_tips["random"])