[IPython-dev] zmq when using ipython

Chen-Shan Chin cschin at infoecho.net
Mon Apr 23 00:51:00 EDT 2012


Hi, Fernando:

I really like the extension idea.  This is probably also what I was looking for when I try to hack ipython to be able to take message that is not initialized from a normal input cell (e.g. a python code is associated some customized UI element sent by javascript...)

--Jason C.

On Apr 12, 2012, at 10:43 PM, Jason Grout wrote:

> On 4/12/12 10:48 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Jason Grout
>> <jason-sage at creativetrax.com>  wrote:
>>> Thanks, this corrects a big misunderstanding I had (and maybe is also an
>>> answer to Volker's post).  I thought *everything* in the new ipython
>>> depended on the messaging protocol and connections with zmq.
>> 
>> The biggest change for Sage is going to be that customizing IPython
>> now uses a richer but also more complex configuration system:
>> 
>> http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/config/index.html
>> 
>> It appears a bit daunting at first, and it does have a few rough
>> edges, but by and large we've found that it works very well in letting
>> us configure all the many moving parts IPython now has while using the
>> full power of the Python language (since the config files are regular
>> .py).
>> 
>> It's *possible* that we've removed/forgotten something that Sage used
>> in its command-line client.  If that's the case let us know, as we
>> didn't intend to remove any of the features that made the kind of
>> aggressive customization Sage does impossible.  Such a change would be
>> just an accidental oversight, so just report it and we'll do our best
>> to restore any missing functionality.
>> 
> 
> Mike Hansen posted a working patch for the latest Sage build: 
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12719
> 
> I've been using it for about a day now, and haven't noticed any real 
> problems.
> 
> I'm also interested in the forking issue.  With the Sage Cell Server 
> [1], we end up forking a running Sage instance to create a new worker 
> process (i.e., kernel).  We're still thinking through the design and how 
> we can best take advantage of the new IPython functionality, so I'll 
> probably have more coherent questions later.  However, one feature we'd 
> love to see is allowing user code to send messages in the same channel 
> as normal output messages.  For example, I'd like to send the following 
> message, which our custom IPython client already interprets to make a 
> Sage interact with javascript controls:
> 
> {"msg_type": "interact_prepare",
>  "content": {"interact_id": "2096051932116277084",
>              "layout": {"top_center": ["n"]},
>              "update": {"n": ["n"]},
>              "controls": {"n": {"control_type": "slider", "raw": true, 
> "default": 0.0, "step": 0.004, "label": null, "subtype": "continuous", 
> "range": [0.0, 1.0], "display_value": true}}
>             }
> }
> 
> Last year, we talked about wrapping such user messages so that the 
> message the client would actually see this:
> 
> {"header": {...},
> "parent_header": {...},
> "msg_type": "extension",
> "content": user_message, # message above
> }
> 
> Is there a way to send such messages from userspace code?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
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