[FIXED] Sending python command line arguments to IPython

Issue

How can we start ipython REPL and instruct it to pass some command-line arguments to the underlying python interpreter?

For example, we can open a python REPL with increased verbosity by using

python -v

But I could not see how to pass that flag through when opening IPython.

Solution

I'd say the best way to do that would be to explicitly launch ipython with python:

python /usr/bin/ipython

as the ipython executable is just a python script ; or you can launch ipython by telling python to load the ipython library:

python -m IPython.frontend.terminal.ipapp

and then you can add all the native python arguments:

python -v /usr/bin/ipython
python -v -m IPython.frontend.terminal.ipapp

HTH

Answered By - zmo