environment/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/zmq/session.py
def recv(self, socket, mode=zmq.NOBLOCK, content=True, copy=True):
        """Receive and unpack a message.

        Parameters
        ----------
        socket : ZMQStream or Socket
            The socket or stream to use in receiving.

        Returns
        -------
        [idents], msg
            [idents] is a list of idents and msg is a nested message dict of
            same format as self.msg returns.
        """
        if isinstance(socket, ZMQStream):
            socket = socket.socket
        try:
            msg_list = socket.recv_multipart(mode, copy=copy)
        except zmq.ZMQError as e:
            if e.errno == zmq.EAGAIN:
                # We can convert EAGAIN to None as we know in this case
                # recv_multipart won't return None.
                return None,None
            else:
                raise
        # split multipart message into identity list and message dict
        # invalid large messages can cause very expensive string comparisons
        idents, msg_list = self.feed_identities(msg_list, copy)
        try:
            return idents, self.unserialize(msg_list, content=content, copy=copy)
        except Exception as e:
            # TODO: handle it
            raise e
def recv(self, socket, mode=zmq.NOBLOCK, content=True, copy=True):
        """Receive and unpack a message.

        Parameters
        ----------
        socket : ZMQStream or Socket
            The socket or stream to use in receiving.

        Returns
        -------
        [idents], msg
            [idents] is a list of idents and msg is a nested message dict of
            same format as self.msg returns.
        """
        if isinstance(socket, ZMQStream):
            socket = socket.socket
        try:
            msg_list = socket.recv_multipart(mode, copy=copy)
        except zmq.ZMQError as e:
            if e.errno == zmq.EAGAIN:
                # We can convert EAGAIN to None as we know in this case
                # recv_multipart won't return None.
                return None,None
            else:
                raise
        # split multipart message into identity list and message dict
        # invalid large messages can cause very expensive string comparisons
        idents, msg_list = self.feed_identities(msg_list, copy)
        try:
            return idents, self.unserialize(msg_list, content=content, copy=copy)
        except Exception as e:
            # TODO: handle it
            raise e
Receive and unpack a message.

        Parameters
        ----------
        socket : ZMQStream or Socket
            The socket or stream to use in receiving.

        Returns
        -------
        [idents], msg
            [idents] is a list of idents and msg is a nested message dict of
            same format as self.msg returns.