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"""Simple function to call to get the current InteractiveShell instance
"""

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#  Copyright (C) 2013  The IPython Development Team
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#  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
#  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
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# Classes and functions
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def get_ipython():
    """Get the global InteractiveShell instance.
    
    Returns None if no InteractiveShell instance is registered.
    """
    from IPython.core.interactiveshell import InteractiveShell
    if InteractiveShell.initialized():
        return InteractiveShell.instance()