Syntax for arguments in the %%snoop IPython magic command?

[alexmojaki]

Currently it's not possible to pass any arguments to %%snoop. I'd like it to have the same arguments as snoop(). But magic commands are not functions, and arguments work differently. The command simply receives the line containing %%snoop as a string which is then parsed. The convention for most commands is to use shell-like syntax for arguments which are parsed with argparse. So the command might look something like:

%%snoop --depth 2 --watch self.foo,bar[0] --watch-explode thing,bob

Does that look good? I'm not sure I like this convention personally, but I don't use IPython much.

What about short versions of arguments? Should I provide them at all? How do these look?

• -d for --depth
• -w for --watch
• -e (or -x?) for --watch-explode