notify when execution/command is completed

Question

How do I get IPython to notify me when a command has been executed? Can I get it to use the bell/alert, or by pop-up? I'm running Anaconda on iTerm on OS X 10.8.5.

Answer 1

With the newest version of iTerm, you can use the alert on next mark functionality of the shell integration.

Answer 2

Finally someone created a nice library for it.

You just install it:

pip install jupyternotify

Import it in your notebook:

import jupyternotify
ip = get_ipython()
ip.register_magics(jupyternotify.JupyterNotifyMagics)

and use a magic command:

%%notify
import time
time.sleep(5)

and get a nice notification:

Git-page also shows how to load it automatically.

Answer 3

Are you using IPython Notebook, or IPython from the terminal? If you are using IPython Notebook, I suggest using the notify extension available from https://github.com/sjpfenninger/ipython-extensions (write up available here)

Answer 4

As an alternative, I wrote a simple module/decorator function to notify on function completed (works only on MAC)

Example:

from ipynotifyer import notifyOnComplete as nf


@nf()
def divide_by_five():
    return 5/5

@nf(timer=True)
def divide_by_ten():
    return 5/10

https://github.com/Casyfill/ipython_notifier

Answer 5

Recent versions of iTerm send notifications to notification center when there is output in a non-visible tab. They fold into notification center by default, but you can change them to stay on the screen in the Notifications preferences in System Preferences.