How to rename a magic function in IPython?

Question

I'd like to rename %paste to something like %pp so that it takes fewer keystrokes. I worked out a way to do that but it seems complicated. Is there a better way?

def foo(self, bar):
    get_ipython().magic("paste")

get_ipython().define_magic('pp', foo)

Answer 1

From IPython 0.13, there's a new %alias_magic magic function, which you would use as:

%alias_magic pp paste

Answer 2

use %alias magic to do it (if you want it to be permanent use %store):

In [8]: %alias??

"""Define an alias for a system command.

   '%alias alias_name cmd' defines 'alias_name' as an alias for 'cmd'
   ...