From 14f70d7bcd3297a06a5082625e717f61a6bd8f43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: steff456 <steff456@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 15:10:14 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix ipython startup options

---
 spyder_kernels/console/start.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spyder_kernels/console/start.py b/spyder_kernels/console/start.py
index 0c051dc6..60c04685 100644
--- a/spyder_kernels/console/start.py
+++ b/spyder_kernels/console/start.py
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ def kernel_config():
         spy_cfg.IPKernelApp.exec_lines = []
 
     # Clean terminal arguments input
-    clear_argv = "import sys;sys.argv = [''];del sys"
-    spy_cfg.IPKernelApp.exec_lines.append(clear_argv)
+    clear_argv = ['import sys', 'sys.argv = ['']', 'del sys']
+    spy_cfg.IPKernelApp.exec_lines = clear_argv + spy_cfg.IPKernelApp.exec_lines
 
     # Load %autoreload magic
     spy_cfg.IPKernelApp.exec_lines.append(