[Eric] PyQConsole and IPython Integreation?

[Dieter]

On 3/29/07, Detlev Offenbach <detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
> 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
> --
> Detlev Offenbach
> detlev at die-offenbachs.de
>

Detlev, I very much appreciate that. I think that a lot of people
interested in a linux console (and NOT to mention IPython) would also
appreciate it.

Best regards, and thanks,
-Dieter