On Jul 4, 2015, at 12:32, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> wrote:

Todd <toddrjen@gmail.com> wrote:

More out-there, but it probably isn't completely impossible for python to
provide some sort of native notebook-like interface, or at least some sort
of interface that makes it convenient for third parties to make such
notebook interfaces.

It will not be possible because of this:

https://jupyter.org

Having Jupyter in the Python standard library would screw over the Julia
and R users.

Well they still have to install CPython to install Jupyter 
and even Python3 if they want multi-user... so I’m not sure that would “screw”
them. (or I don’t get why you mean by screw them).


Also, more extensive Python distros like Anaconda and Enthought Canopy
include IPython/Jupyter by default. I think it is more important to start
to direct users to select these than to include Jupyter in the standard
lib. This is particularly important because of the growing number of
essential packages that are not in the standard lib (e.g. NumPy, Cython,
Numba, matplotlib, wxPython, Twisted, pymq, Sqalchemy, etc.) and the
complex package dependencies. Another question is whether python.org should
provide links to these installers, or even maintain a similar Python stack
with a package manager (I am not sure if pip can handle all the
complexities sufficient).

One possible, simpler thing would be to ship a minimal python kernel [1]
that ‘only’ requires PyZMQ.

Though, now that pip “Just works"[2], I ‘m not sure it is worth either. 

-- 
M



[2]: offer subject to conditions
[1]: https://github.com/dsblank/simple_kernel/blob/master/simple_kernel.py

# simple_kernel.py
# by Doug Blank <doug.blank@gmail.com>
#
# This sample kernel is meant to be able to demonstrate using zmq for
# implementing a language backend (called a kernel) for IPython. It is
# written in the most straightforward manner so that it can be easily
# translated into other programming languages. It doesn't use any code
# from IPython, but only standard Python libraries and zmq.
#
# It is also designed to be able to run, showing the details of the
# message handling system.




Sturla

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