[IPython-dev] Twisted reactor + IPython0

[Glenn H Tarbox, PhD]

This is where I started originally.  There's a better fix which I posted
a while ago.  The below uses polling which is unnecessary.  By modifying
shell, you can turn the whole thing into a callback.

A better approach is to use my qtreactor (it sucks in qt but) because
you can instantiate twisted (and qt) and keep the event loop for
stdin/stdout and have reactor behavior as well.

the key with qtreactor is I made a new call = reactor.runReturn() which
nails up the reactor to the Qt application, sets up the timers etc, but
returns the thread to you... so as long as I/O in IPython doesn't block
(which it only does when scrolling more than a page)

-glenn


On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 23:39 +0200, Ville M. Vainio wrote:
> This is related to the recent thread about reactors, GUI support etc.
> 
> Would it make sense to provide direct twisted reactor support for ipython0?
> 
> There is a recipe for this:
> 
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/410670
> 
> If this works as expected, can't we just implement all the GUI support
> widgets in terms of this baby, using the support bundled with twisted?
> 
> A couple of you have gathered extensive experience with Twisted, what
> do you think?
> 
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