❔ Store %%ai answer into a variable

[adriens]

❔ About

%%ai is such a cumfortable way to call many AI services that sometimes, I would like use it as a function instead of sending the output straight into the next cell.

🎯 Objectives

The main purpose of this issue is to:

• If already possible : document how to send output into a variable
• If not already possible : Make it possible to send output into a variable (then document it 😅 )

[JasonWeill]

@adriens Thanks for opening this issue! You can use IPython's built-in %%capture magic command to capture the outputs of a cell, including a cell that contains a magic command.

In one cell, run:

%%capture earth
%%ai anthropic:claude-v1
Tell me interesting facts about the size of the Earth

Then, in the following cell, you can iterate over the outputs and display them:

for o in earth.outputs:
    display(o)

Alternatively, you can use the special Out variable to refer to a cell's outputs. Each cell you run has a number, which corresponds to the index of Out that refers to the cell's outputs. If you run the following command in a cell, which gets assigned to number 14:

%%ai anthropic:claude-v1
Tell me interesting facts about the size of the Earth

Then, after this cell finishes running, you can refer to its outputs as Out[14].

[adriens]

I'm giving it a try then will close the issue 👍

[adriens]

All perfect, : thanks a lot for your support :