[Eric] PyQConsole and IPython Integreation?

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Dienstag, 27. März 2007, vel.accel at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Detlev,
>
> I'm am very interested to know your thoughts on the possibility of
> integrating IPython into Eric through PyQConsole. Do you think that
> this would be something you might do in the near future?
>
> Pasted below, is a recent post from the IPython mail list, mentioning
> the desire from others in the community.
>
> Thank you,
> -Dieter
>
> ___________FROM THE IPYTHON MAIL LIST:____________
>
> Le mardi 27 mars 2007 00:25, Nicolas Pernetty a écrit :
> > Sorry if it has already been asked somewhere but I haven't found any
> > relevant information anywhere : is there any real IDE (or IDE
> > initiative) out there which uses IPython as its python interpreter ?
> > IPython have so many useful features and is... free : I would be
> > surprised that nobody haven't tried to integrate IPython in some way...
> >
> > I'm an heavy and happy user of (X)emacs + IPython + Matplotlib but I
> > can't ask of everyone else to master (X)emacs. So I have a little
> > problem here when I try to promote Python...
>
> Last year, Logilab company developped for us (CEA-Grenoble) pyqonsole, a
> port for PyQt of konsole, the KDE terminal emulator. The author of konsole,
> Lars Doele, gave us a konsole version which was only using Qt, so the port
> from C++ to Python was easy.
>
> With pyqonsole, you can run Ipython in a Qt-based GUI; this is what we are
> doing for our project (a spectrometer control software). On the french
> python list, a guy (a translator) working on Eric project (a Qt-based great
> IDE) said that the author planned to use pyqonsole as embedded shell. I
> don't know if it is already done, but even if he doesn't use Ipython as
> python shell, it shouldn't be too difficult to adapt the code once Eric use
> pyqonsole.
>
> You can also ask Eric author to support it...
>
> Hope this help.
>
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Hi,

I had pyqonsole integrated internally but the way it was coded didn't work 
inside eric very well. Basicly pyqonsole was unusable. I send a few requests 
for changes to the author but didn't get any feedback. This and the fact, 
that there were no plans for a Qt4 port, made me decide against it. If they 
come up with a Qt4 port, I might give it a second try. It won't go into eric3 
as this will not receive new features anymore.

Regards,
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
detlev at die-offenbachs.de