[IPython-dev] Moving forward with the frontends

Ville M. Vainio vivainio at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 02:03:40 EDT 2008


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Gael Varoquaux
<gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:

> integrate IPython in Mayavi and other similar projects. The requirements
> are:
>
>  * We want something fast, not after three months of work

>  * We are interested in wx. I am of course happy sharing the code with
>    other frontends, but I will not be developping them.

>  * The feature of ipython we are interested in are magics, "?" and "??",
>    tab completion, history, and alike...

> I am currently reviewing the existing code. I see three code bases for
> front end:
>
>    * Laurent Dufrechou's WxIpython, living in the trunk, in
>      IPython/gui/wx

I think this is the winner here, given the preconditions above. It
seems it would be pretty easy to integrate.

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