Configuration options

These options can be set in the configuration file, ~/.jupyter/jupyter_qtconsole_config.py, or at the command line when you start Qt console.

You may enter jupyter qtconsole --help-all to get information about all available configuration options.

Options

ConnectionFileMixin.connection_file : Unicode

Default: ''

JSON file in which to store connection info [default: kernel-<pid>.json]

This file will contain the IP, ports, and authentication key needed to connect clients to this kernel. By default, this file will be created in the security dir of the current profile, but can be specified by absolute path.

ConnectionFileMixin.control_port : Int

Default: 0

set the control (ROUTER) port [default: random]

ConnectionFileMixin.hb_port : Int

Default: 0

set the heartbeat port [default: random]

ConnectionFileMixin.iopub_port : Int

Default: 0

set the iopub (PUB) port [default: random]

ConnectionFileMixin.ip : Unicode

Default: ''

Set the kernel’s IP address [default localhost]. If the IP address is something other than localhost, then Consoles on other machines will be able to connect to the Kernel, so be careful!

ConnectionFileMixin.shell_port : Int

Default: 0

set the shell (ROUTER) port [default: random]

ConnectionFileMixin.stdin_port : Int

Default: 0

set the stdin (ROUTER) port [default: random]

ConnectionFileMixin.transport : ‘tcp’|’ipc’

Default: 'tcp'

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JupyterConsoleApp.confirm_exit : CBool

Default: True

Set to display confirmation dialog on exit. You can always use ‘exit’ or ‘quit’, to force a direct exit without any confirmation.

JupyterConsoleApp.existing : CUnicode

Default: ''

Connect to an already running kernel

JupyterConsoleApp.kernel_manager_class : Type

Default: 'jupyter_client.manager.KernelManager'

The kernel manager class to use.

JupyterConsoleApp.kernel_name : Unicode

Default: 'python'

The name of the default kernel to start.

JupyterConsoleApp.sshkey : Unicode

Default: ''

Path to the ssh key to use for logging in to the ssh server.

JupyterConsoleApp.sshserver : Unicode

Default: ''

The SSH server to use to connect to the kernel.

Application.log_datefmt : Unicode

Default: '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'

The date format used by logging formatters for %(asctime)s

Application.log_format : Unicode

Default: '[%(name)s]%(highlevel)s %(message)s'

The Logging format template

Application.log_level : 0|10|20|30|40|50|’DEBUG’|’INFO’|’WARN’|’ERROR’|’CRITICAL’

Default: 30

Set the log level by value or name.

JupyterApp.answer_yes : Bool

Default: False

Answer yes to any prompts.

JupyterApp.config_file : Unicode

Default: ''

Full path of a config file.

JupyterApp.config_file_name : Unicode

Default: ''

Specify a config file to load.

JupyterApp.generate_config : Bool

Default: False

Generate default config file.

JupyterQtConsoleApp.display_banner : CBool

Default: True

Whether to display a banner upon starting the QtConsole.

JupyterQtConsoleApp.hide_menubar : CBool

Default: False

Start the console window with the menu bar hidden.

JupyterQtConsoleApp.maximize : CBool

Default: False

Start the console window maximized.

JupyterQtConsoleApp.plain : CBool

Default: False

Use a plaintext widget instead of rich text (plain can’t print/save).

JupyterQtConsoleApp.stylesheet : Unicode

Default: ''

path to a custom CSS stylesheet

ConsoleWidget.ansi_codes : Bool

Default: True

Whether to process ANSI escape codes.

ConsoleWidget.buffer_size : Int

Default: 500

The maximum number of lines of text before truncation. Specifying a non-positive number disables text truncation (not recommended).

ConsoleWidget.console_height : Int

Default: 25

The height of the console at start time in number of characters (will double with vsplit paging)

ConsoleWidget.console_width : Int

Default: 81

The width of the console at start time in number of characters (will double with hsplit paging)

ConsoleWidget.execute_on_complete_input : Bool

Default: True

Whether to automatically execute on syntactically complete input.

If False, Shift-Enter is required to submit each execution. Disabling this is mainly useful for non-Python kernels, where the completion check would be wrong.

ConsoleWidget.font_family : Unicode

Default: ''

The font family to use for the console. On OSX this defaults to Monaco, on Windows the default is Consolas with fallback of Courier, and on other platforms the default is Monospace.

ConsoleWidget.font_size : Int

Default: 0

The font size. If unconfigured, Qt will be entrusted with the size of the font.

ConsoleWidget.gui_completion : ‘plain’|’droplist’|’ncurses’

Default: 'ncurses'

The type of completer to use. Valid values are:

‘plain’ : Show the available completion as a text list

Below the editing area.

‘droplist’: Show the completion in a drop down list navigable

by the arrow keys, and from which you can select completion by pressing Return.

‘ncurses’ : Show the completion as a text list which is navigable by

tab and arrow keys.

ConsoleWidget.include_other_output : Bool

Default: False

Whether to include output from clients other than this one sharing the same kernel.

Outputs are not displayed until enter is pressed.

ConsoleWidget.kind : ‘plain’|’rich’

Default: 'plain'

The type of underlying text widget to use. Valid values are ‘plain’, which specifies a QPlainTextEdit, and ‘rich’, which specifies a QTextEdit.

ConsoleWidget.other_output_prefix : Unicode

Default: '[remote] '

Prefix to add to outputs coming from clients other than this one.

Only relevant if include_other_output is True.

ConsoleWidget.paging : ‘inside’|’hsplit’|’vsplit’|’custom’|’none’

Default: 'inside'

The type of paging to use. Valid values are:

‘inside’

The widget pages like a traditional terminal.

‘hsplit’

When paging is requested, the widget is split horizontally. The top pane contains the console, and the bottom pane contains the paged text.

‘vsplit’

Similar to ‘hsplit’, except that a vertical splitter is used.

‘custom’

No action is taken by the widget beyond emitting a ‘custom_page_requested(str)’ signal.

‘none’

The text is written directly to the console.

ConsoleWidget.scrollbar_visibility : Bool

Default: True

The visibility of the scrollar. If False then the scrollbar will be invisible.

HistoryConsoleWidget.history_lock : Bool

Default: False

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FrontendWidget.banner : Unicode

Default: ''

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FrontendWidget.clear_on_kernel_restart : Bool

Default: True

Whether to clear the console when the kernel is restarted

FrontendWidget.confirm_restart : Bool

Default: True

Whether to ask for user confirmation when restarting kernel

FrontendWidget.enable_calltips : Bool

Default: True

Whether to draw information calltips on open-parentheses.

FrontendWidget.lexer_class : DottedObjectName

Default: traitlets.Undefined

The pygments lexer class to use.

JupyterWidget.editor : Unicode

Default: ''

A command for invoking a GUI text editor. If the string contains a {filename} format specifier, it will be used. Otherwise, the filename will be appended to the end the command. To use a terminal text editor, the command should launch a new terminal, e.g. "gnome-terminal -- vim".

JupyterWidget.editor_line : Unicode

Default: ''

The editor command to use when a specific line number is requested. The string should contain two format specifiers: {line} and {filename}. If this parameter is not specified, the line number option to the %edit magic will be ignored.

JupyterWidget.in_prompt : Unicode

Default: 'In [<span class="in-prompt-number">%i</span>]: '

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JupyterWidget.input_sep : Unicode

Default: '\\n'

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JupyterWidget.out_prompt : Unicode

Default: 'Out[<span class="out-prompt-number">%i</span>]: '

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JupyterWidget.output_sep : Unicode

Default: ''

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JupyterWidget.output_sep2 : Unicode

Default: ''

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JupyterWidget.style_sheet : Unicode

Default: ''

A CSS stylesheet. The stylesheet can contain classes for:

1. Qt: QPlainTextEdit, QFrame, QWidget, etc
2. Pygments: .c, .k, .o, etc. (see PygmentsHighlighter)
3. QtConsole: .error, .in-prompt, .out-prompt, etc

JupyterWidget.syntax_style : Unicode

Default: ''

If not empty, use this Pygments style for syntax highlighting. Otherwise, the style sheet is queried for Pygments style information.

KernelManager.autorestart : Bool

Default: True

Should we autorestart the kernel if it dies.

KernelManager.kernel_cmd : List

Default: []

DEPRECATED: Use kernel_name instead.

The Popen Command to launch the kernel. Override this if you have a custom kernel. If kernel_cmd is specified in a configuration file, Jupyter does not pass any arguments to the kernel, because it cannot make any assumptions about the arguments that the kernel understands. In particular, this means that the kernel does not receive the option –debug if it given on the Jupyter command line.

KernelManager.shutdown_wait_time : Float

Default: 5.0

Time to wait for a kernel to terminate before killing it, in seconds.

KernelRestarter.debug : Bool

Default: False

Whether to include every poll event in debugging output.

Has to be set explicitly, because there will be a lot of output.

KernelRestarter.random_ports_until_alive : Bool

Default: True

Whether to choose new random ports when restarting before the kernel is alive.

KernelRestarter.restart_limit : Int

Default: 5

The number of consecutive autorestarts before the kernel is presumed dead.

KernelRestarter.time_to_dead : Float

Default: 3.0

Kernel heartbeat interval in seconds.

Session.buffer_threshold : Int

Default: 1024

Threshold (in bytes) beyond which an object’s buffer should be extracted to avoid pickling.

Session.check_pid : Bool

Default: True

Whether to check PID to protect against calls after fork.

This check can be disabled if fork-safety is handled elsewhere.

Session.copy_threshold : Int

Default: 65536

Threshold (in bytes) beyond which a buffer should be sent without copying.

Session.debug : Bool

Default: False

Debug output in the Session

Session.digest_history_size : Int

Default: 65536

The maximum number of digests to remember.

The digest history will be culled when it exceeds this value.

Session.item_threshold : Int

Default: 64

The maximum number of items for a container to be introspected for custom serialization. Containers larger than this are pickled outright.

Session.key : CBytes

Default: b''

execution key, for signing messages.

Session.keyfile : Unicode

Default: ''

path to file containing execution key.

Session.metadata : Dict

Default: {}

Metadata dictionary, which serves as the default top-level metadata dict for each message.

Session.packer : DottedObjectName

Default: 'json'

The name of the packer for serializing messages. Should be one of ‘json’, ‘pickle’, or an import name for a custom callable serializer.

Session.session : CUnicode

Default: ''

The UUID identifying this session.

Session.signature_scheme : Unicode

Default: 'hmac-sha256'

The digest scheme used to construct the message signatures. Must have the form ‘hmac-HASH’.

Session.unpacker : DottedObjectName

Default: 'json'

The name of the unpacker for unserializing messages. Only used with custom functions for packer.

Session.username : Unicode

Default: 'buildd'

Username for the Session. Default is your system username.