Quickly open a web page to display a variable in IPython

browser.py

import webbrowser
from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile

from IPython.core.magic import Magics, magics_class, line_magic


@magics_class
class BrowserMagics(Magics):

    @line_magic
    def browse(self, content):
        """Write content to a temporary file and open in browser.

        Parameters
        ----------
        content : str
            A variable name or string literal to display.

        """
        try:
            data = self.shell.user_ns[content]
        except KeyError:
            data = content

        tmp = NamedTemporaryFile(dir='.', suffix='.html', delete=False)
        tmp.write(data)
        webbrowser.open_new('file://' + tmp.name)


ip = get_ipython()  # noqa
ip.register_magics(BrowserMagics)