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.

Answer 2

If your intention is to run converted .py file notebook then you should just comment out get_ipython() statements. The matlibplot output can't be shown inside console so you would have some work to do . Ideally, iPython shouldn't have generated these statements. You can use following to show plots:

plt.show(block=True)