Seems like you uploaded an old file as the release ZIP. It lacks the termination of QtConsoles from the current master.

You don't mention under which terms you license your software. Unclear licensing will prevent people (like me) from contributing.

Github put up a nice website that helps with that decision and tells you what text to copy where: http://choosealicense.com/

More on the topic: http://www.datamation.com/open-source/open-source-debate-copyleft-vs.-permissive-licenses.html

This

Happens whenever I raise an exception in the IPython shell. IDA's own shell just prints the exception to the IPython window (weird too).

I'll try and look into it. The same thing happened to me with my pure-Python implementation, so for a long while I was sure my new code is the issue, but I seem to get it with current release code as well.

While IPython allowed to easily change profiles and kernels with --profile and other options, Jupyter does not.

The solution of using the JUPYTER_CONFIG_DIR environment variable works, but it is a very bad idea. Luckily, there is an alternative.

Jupyter allows for additional kernels to be added to the notebook using simple JSON files (docs here, examples here). The kernel.json files should be placed into a kernels/<kernel-name> directory under one of the data directories:

>>>jupyter --paths
config:
    C:\Users\user\.jupyter
    c:\python27\etc\jupyter
    C:\ProgramData\jupyter
data:
    C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\jupyter
    c:\python27\share\jupyter
    C:\ProgramData\jupyter
runtime:
    C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\jupyter\runtime

I tried using the following JSON:

{
 "display_name": "IDA64", 
 "language": "python", 
 "argv": [
  "python.exe", 
  "-c", "from idakernelmanager import main; main()",
  "-f", "{connection_file}"
 ], 
 "codemirror_mode": {
  "version": 2, 
  "name": "ipython"
 }
}

With the following code for main:

def main():
    kernel_cmd = [IDA_EXE] + sys.argv[-2:]
    return launch_ida_kernel(kernel_cmd)

It shows up nicely in the notebook,

But trying to launch the IDA64 kernel always yields the same error:

Any ideas?

I think the IPython console should terminate when IDA terminates. Or at least get some sort of notification.

The issue I keep running into is that I open multiple instances of IDA, and multiple instances of the qtconsole. All the consoles have the same title, and there is no indication when I close IDA. So I have multiple shells, and I have to actually type in code to see which one are still active 😭

The possible solutions I can think of are:

1. If IDA spawns the qtconsole, it should also terminate it (easy, just save process information and kill it). This is kinda safe, as you can't really attach the console to multiple instances.
2. Somehow indicate to Jupyter that the kernel has died.
3. Set the title of the qtconsole window to match the IDA window.

The first seams the easiest.

This is a clone of the issue I opened in IDASkins - zyantific/IDASkins#9

I have IDAIPython installed for quite a long time, and it is working well.
Today I decided to try IDASkins. After installing it, IDA kept crashing on startup when starting to show the "First Start" dialog.
The crash seems to be related to the Python interpreter state, so I disabled my only non-default Python plugin - IDAIPython. Once done, everything worked as expected.
After the first run, I enabled IDAIPython, and all seems to work well.

I did not have time to dig in and see if this is a bug in IDAIPython or IDASkins, so I am opening an issue there as well, and referencing this one.

When closing a notebook, the IDA process is simply terminated.
We need to find a way to trigger an orderly shutdown on IDA instead.

I suggest adding the change-log to the release page itself, so that people know what they are downloading.

Currently, the IPython console and the regular Python console inside IDA have different namespaces.

Is it possible to merge those namespaces?

I am getting this exception. It's on a Windows 10 64bit Machine. Anaconda 32bit is installed. I made sure that any other python installations were removed.

The funny thing is that there is no error when I import from ipykernel.kernelapp import IPKernelApp in the python shell or Jupyter QtConsole.

Here is the full stacktrace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\devtools\IDA 6.8\python\ipythonEmbed.py", line 19, in <module>
    from ipykernel.kernelapp import IPKernelApp
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\ipykernel\__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from .connect import *
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\ipykernel\connect.py", line 13, in <module>
    from IPython.core.profiledir import ProfileDir
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\IPython\__init__.py", line 48, in <module>
    from .core.application import Application
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\application.py", line 25, in <module>
    from IPython.core import release, crashhandler
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\crashhandler.py", line 28, in <module>
    from IPython.core import ultratb
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\ultratb.py", line 124, in <module>
    from IPython.utils import path as util_path
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\IPython\utils\path.py", line 19, in <module>
    from IPython.utils.process import system
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\IPython\utils\process.py", line 15, in <module>
    from ._process_win32 import system, getoutput, arg_split, check_pid
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\IPython\utils\_process_win32.py", line 21, in <module>
    import ctypes
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Anaconda2\Lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array
ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
A Python Error Occurred trying to start the kernel!

I think it makes more sense there. Also, The Edit->Plugins menu is only available when in the IDA View. Which is a bit annoying.

Hi have some trouble to install release 0.3/0.4.

Infos:
OS = Windows 7 64 VM
IDAPro 6.6 Portable
python 2.7.11 Anaconda 2.4.1 installed to C:\Anaconda2
set PYTHONHOME=C:\Anaconda2 global for all user
copy python/ipythonEmbed.py to C:\Users\user\Desktop\IDAPro6.6\python\ipythonEmbed.py
copy plugins/ida_* to C:\Users\user\Desktop\IDAPro6.6\plugins\

execute C:\Users\user\Desktop\IDAPro6.6\idaq.exe

ida pro console:

LoadLibrary(C:\Users\user\Desktop\IDAPro6.6\plugins\ida_ipython.plw) error: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden.
C:\Users\user\Desktop\IDAPro6.6\plugins\ida_ipython.plw: can't load file

Translate: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden. => The module can not be found

Do I miss something? The file C:\Users\user\Desktop\IDAPro6.6\plugins\ida_ipython.plw exist and the user has rwx permissions.

Hello,

Was working in 6.8 but after upgrading in 6.9 then 6.9 SP1 got this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\IDA 6.9\python\ipythonEmbed.py", line 19, in
from ipykernel.kernelapp import IPKernelApp
ImportError: No module named ipykernel.kernelapp
A Python Error Occurred trying to start the kernel!
alleycat.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\IDA 6.9\python\idaapi.py", line 589, in IDAPython_ExecScript
scriptpath = os.path.dirname(script)
File "C:\Anaconda\Lib\ntpath.py", line 177, in dirname
return split(p)[0]
File "C:\Anaconda\Lib\ntpath.py", line 150, in split
while head2 and head2[-1] in '/':
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'start'

Can you fix it ? Thanks a lot.
Love your plugins, can't work anymore without it.

It would be nice if this plugin would be cross-platform.

Personally I would like to see the Qtconsole work ported first and to Linux first of course ;)

I'm not great with win32, C or C++ but I might be able to help with small things or test.

I'll send you a PR to state that this is Windows-only since I've spent a bit of time doing my python 2.7 32-bit anaconda install in order to install your plugin only to realize later that the archive contained PE files and not ELFs... Relevant documentation ending with the dead-end ;) https://gist.github.com/obilodeau/9006a01ba8b1cd0d7350

Seems like nice work! Thanks for sharing it.

For some reason, installing Python 2.7.11 prevented IDAPython from working on my PC. As a result - IDAIPython kept crashing IDA, resulting in a dump file.

I am not yet sure why this happens, but we should probably check for IDAPython being loaded anyway.

Hi,

When I type: ipython qtconsole --existing kernel-4221.json I get:

Traceback (most recent call last)
None
None:None

Did you have an idea ?
Latest version of IDA.

Trying to add IPython magics I came to a problem - it seems that I have to add them from the IPython console itself. Is there any other way to do it in the context of the plugin?

Being able to add magics from other plugins will be quite powerful.

It seems that every time I try and close IDA, it crashes.

It is not critical, as it crashes after saving the database, but it is still a bug. As it does no noticeable harm, I only noticed it after setting Windbg to be the postmortem debugger. But once I set it, I now see IDA crashing due to an access violation on every termination.

This has been reproduced on multiple computers.

Will add more information as soon as my debugging yields any.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\IDA 6.8\python\ipythonEmbed.py", line 19, in
from ipykernel.kernelapp import IPKernelApp
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\IDA 6.8\python\ipykernel_init_.py", line 2, in
from .connect import *
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\IDA 6.8\python\ipykernel\connect.py", line 14, in
from IPython.paths import get_ipython_dir
ImportError: No module named paths
A Python Error Occurred trying to start the kernel!