please undeprecate %sc
tavin opened this issue · comments
I refer to https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactive/magics.html#magic-sc.
Please remove the deprecation of %sc. It does not actually have an equivalent replacement. The object returned by var = ! does not stringify to the output of the shell command. Rather it stringifies to a python list representation of the split lines. By stringify I mean using str() or passing to a yaml/json parser etc. The behavior of var = ! may be useful/desirable in certain cases, but %sc works better in other cases.
Of course every time var = ! is used, it could be followed by var = var.nlstr, but imo %sc is better than extra boilerplate. One liners that require two lines... just aren't one liners anymore :)
It's been deprecated 12 years ago, it's likely to not be removed soon. It is a fairly straitforward magic, so if you need or it ever gets removed, it should be simple enough for someone else to move it to a new package or even just defin it in their config file if needs be.
I'm not going to un-deprecate it after more than 10 years, and if it gets removed one day, then I think it's ok. I don't think we should worry about it.
Closing as I don't believe i'll un-deprecate.