NameError: name 'get_ipython' is not defined

Question

I am working on Caffe framework and using PyCaffe interface. I am using a Python script obtained from converting the IPython Notebook 00-classification.ipynb for testing the classification by a trained model for ImageNet. But any get_ipython() statement in the script is giving the following error:

$ python python/my_test_imagenet.py  Traceback (most recent call last):   File "python/my_test_imagenet.py", line 23, in <module>     get_ipython().magic(u'matplotlib inline') 

In the script, I'm importing the following:

import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt  get_ipython().magic(u'matplotlib inline')  # Make sure that caffe is on the python path: caffe_root = '/path/to/caffe/' import sys sys.path.insert(0, caffe_root + 'python')  import caffe  plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (10, 10) plt.rcParams['image.interpolation'] = 'nearest' plt.rcParams['image.cmap'] = 'gray'  import os  # ... Rest of the code... 

Can someone please help me to resolve this error?

Answer 1

You have to run your script with ipython:

$ ipython python/my_test_imagenet.py 

Then get_ipython will be already in global context.

Note: Importing it via from IPython import get_ipython in ordinary shell python will not work as you really need ipython running.