The recent 0.11 release of IPython includes a Qt-based console which offers an improved experience compared to running IPython in a terminal. In particular, the console feels like a terminal but offers multi-line editing, syntax highlighting, graphical tooltips, and inline plot figures.
But when I tried to run an existing script in the new IPython Qt Console, the usual overly verbose set of diagnostic messages did not appear! The symtoms were:
- Regular
print
statements in Python worked fine. printf
statements in C-code wrapped with Boost.Python did not appear.
Read on to see a solution. Continue reading IPython Qt Console and printf