Fix wrong u-prefix for strings in magics docs. (#14161)

Carreau · web-flow · commit f5856e4be0a3 · 2023-09-15T15:27:10.000+02:00
`%precision` doesn't output `u'%r'` on Python 3, but `'%r'`.

(Note that the point of this PR is explicitly not to remove u-prefixes
on all strings -- something that would likely be better done by
automated tooling anyways -- but only on those occurring within some
docstrings that end up in the rendered docs, which would more likely not
have been found by tooling.)
diff --git a/IPython/core/magics/basic.py b/IPython/core/magics/basic.py
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ def alias_magic(self, line=''):
           Created `%whereami` as an alias for `%pwd`.
 
           In [6]: %whereami
-          Out[6]: u'/home/testuser'
+          Out[6]: '/home/testuser'
 
           In [7]: %alias_magic h history "-p -l 30" --line
           Created `%h` as an alias for `%history -l 30`.
@@ -537,25 +537,25 @@ def precision(self, s=''):
             In [1]: from math import pi
 
             In [2]: %precision 3
-            Out[2]: u'%.3f'
+            Out[2]: '%.3f'
 
             In [3]: pi
             Out[3]: 3.142
 
             In [4]: %precision %i
-            Out[4]: u'%i'
+            Out[4]: '%i'
 
             In [5]: pi
             Out[5]: 3
 
             In [6]: %precision %e
-            Out[6]: u'%e'
+            Out[6]: '%e'
 
             In [7]: pi**10
             Out[7]: 9.364805e+04
 
             In [8]: %precision
-            Out[8]: u'%r'
+            Out[8]: '%r'
 
             In [9]: pi**10
             Out[9]: 93648.047476082982
