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Module: terminal.prompts

Terminal input and output prompts.

3 Classes

class IPython.terminal.prompts.Prompts(shell)

Bases: object

__init__(shell)

Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.

class IPython.terminal.prompts.ClassicPrompts(shell)

Bases: IPython.terminal.prompts.Prompts

class IPython.terminal.prompts.RichPromptDisplayHook(shell=None, cache_size=1000, **kwargs)

Bases: IPython.core.displayhook.DisplayHook

Subclass of base display hook using coloured prompt

write_output_prompt()

Write the output prompt.

The default implementation simply writes the prompt to sys.stdout.