[IPython-dev] messaging protocol

[Brian Granger]

Jason,

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Jason Grout
<jason-sage at creativetrax.com> wrote:
> On 4/11/11 12:28 AM, Brian Granger wrote:
>>   Any traffic (stdout, stderr, display hook) that is
>> sent out over the PUB channel is send*immediately*.  This is required
>> so that the users sees these things in real time as the code is
>> executed, not after.
>
> Remember that the use-case here is that only the last pyout output is
> displayed, so it seems perfectly reasonable for the displayhook to delay
> sending until after the cell is executed.  This is not the use-case
> where we want interactive pyout output from every command.

Yes, you are right.  If we only trigger pyout/dhook on the last block
the code will most likely be done executing (basically no delay).

> The one case where I see a possible problem is when you have something like:
>
> a=1
> a
> print "done"
>
> Then I suppose the pyout output would either be the pyout of a, or the
> pyout "None" (I don't know offhand which it would be).  If it was the
> pyout of a, then the pyout would be sent after the printed stdout
> output, which would seem weird.

Fernando and I  spent some time last night looking at various options
and we think the best option is what Thomas has in this branch:

https://github.com/takluyver/ipython/tree/single-output

The idea is that dhook will only be displayed for:

* The last block in a multiblock expression.
* And only if that block is an ast.Expr.

This means that the following will trigger the dhook:

a  # if a is defined...

But the following won't:

for i in range(10):
    i

This will result in dhook being called either 0 or 1 times.  To make
this decision, we need the ast information, so it makes sense to
handle this in the splitter.

> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
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Brian E. Granger
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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