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I have ipython with qtconsole installed and can start it via ipython qtconsole. I can also run a script via ipython -i my_script.py to stay in the interactive interpreter after the script finishes or if an exception is thrown. But I could not figure out how to combine them: I would like to do ipython -i qtconsole my_script.py but whatever I try, it complains about invalid flags. Any hint how to do that?

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Interesting, it seems that either this option was forgotten or not wanted in the qtconsole. A way around this (or perhaps an intended way?) is to use the -m flag. This runs a module as a script so you if you called:

ipython qtconsole -m my_script

it will run the code in my_script, for me this works. Notice it needs to be my_script not my_script.py otherwise it will throw an error since it's looking for the module not the file. Hope that helps.

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Works for me with and without ending, but gives a unknown failure at the end in case of using the ending
This is because the -m flag is looking for a module. So it looks in the current directory for a file named my_scipy.py, if you call it with -m my_script.py then it will look for my_script.py.py. More information on import modules and writing your own can be found here.
How to run qtconsole from source code? In other words: what is source code of %qtconsole magic?

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