iPython clear cache from within function call?

I am having memory issues with iPython, and I find that calling %clear out occasionally clears this out. It seems to be caching output somewhere within some of the functions that I'm calling.

I would like to build this into my function. clear out calls:

self.outputcache.flush()

How can I get a refere开发者_运维百科nce to the iPython shell (self in the above)? In other words: how can I flush the outputcache in iPython, without using clear?

The output cache is Out or _oh in your user namespace, so you can call Out.clear(). Edit: This might be a different output cache to self.outputcache. I'm not so familiar with 0.10.

If you need a reference to your IPython shell, in IPython 0.10, use __IP or __IPYTHON__. In 0.11 (the development version), use get_ipython().