display some HTML object doesn't get any useful output in IPython console

[taoluo]

PR #289 introduces a new issue to me. that is when working with IPython console, display some HTML object doesn't get any useful output, it looks like this:

[taoluo]

@twiecki What if use display(df) instead of display(df.to_html()),
for notebook:

for IPython console:

Now, they are both happy;)

[twiecki]

@mickeydonkey Thanks for looking into that, will change. Do we even need the get_ipython() hack then?

[twiecki]

Did you check whether that works from inside a function?

[taoluo]

I checked the following code for print inside a function, and it works as before:

from IPython.display import display
df = pd.DataFrame([1,2],[3,4])
def smart_print(a):
    display(pd.DataFrame([1,2],[3,4]))
smart_print(df)

[taoluo]

and we don't need get_ipython() now.

[twiecki]

Sweet! Want to do a PR?

[taoluo]

Sorry, I haven't make any commit yet. in addition, I am not familiar with code styling stuff like PEP8. So you'd better fix it yourself. Thanks

[taoluo]

though I do hope I could contribute the code.....

[twiecki]

Much simpler, thanks for your help!