%load_ext line_profiler
def hello(name):
greeting = 'Hello {}!'.format(name)
print(greeting)
%lprun -f hello hello("World") # This one is working fine
%lprun -f hello hello('World') # Throws exception
Output:
Hello World!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\workspace\.env\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\interactiveshell.py", line 2963, in run_code
exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
File "<ipython-input-17-a9a8fe65d042>", line 8, in <module>
get_ipython().run_line_magic('lprun', "-f hello hello('World')")
File "c:\workspace\.env\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\interactiveshell.py", line 2131, in run_line_magic
result = fn(*args,**kwargs)
File "<decorator-gen-127>", line 2, in lprun
File "c:\workspace\.env\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\magic.py", line 187, in <lambda>
call = lambda f, *a, **k: f(*a, **k)
File "c:\workspace\.env\lib\site-packages\line_profiler.py", line 356, in lprun
profile.runctx(arg_str, global_ns, local_ns)
File "c:\workspace\.env\lib\site-packages\line_profiler.py", line 151, in runctx
exec_(cmd, globals, locals)
File "<string>", line 1
hello(\'World\')
^
SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character
Code to reproduce the issue
Output:
Versions:
Python 3.6.3 on 64bit Windows: ipykernel==4.8.0 ipython==6.2.1 ipython-genutils==0.2.0 ipywidgets==7.1.1 jupyter==1.0.0 jupyter-client==5.2.2 jupyter-console==5.2.0 jupyter-core==4.4.0 notebook==5.4.0 line-profiler==2.1.2