Disable IPython Exit Confirmation

Question

It's really irritating that every time I type exit(), I get prompted with a confirmation to exit; of course I want to exit! Otherwise, I would not have written exit()!!!

Is there a way to override IPython's default behaviour to make it exit without a prompt?

Answer 1

If you also want Ctrl-D to exit without confirmation, in IPython 0.11, add c.TerminalInteractiveShell.confirm_exit = False to your config file *.

If you don't have a config file yet, run ipython profile create to create one.

Note this ticket if you're working within the Django shell.

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* The config file is located at: $HOME/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_config.py

Answer 2

In ipython version 0.11 or higher,

1. Run with --no-confirm-exit OR
2. Exit via 'exit' instead of control-D OR

3. Make sure the directory exists (or run ipython profile create to create it) and add these lines to $HOME/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_config.py:

   c = get_config()
   
   c.TerminalInteractiveShell.confirm_exit = False