[IPython-dev] Example of a minimal custom IPython client?

[Greg Wilson]

Small world :-)
- G

On 2013-05-08 1:35 PM, Patrick Surry wrote:
> I've become a big fan of IPython + pandas for data analysis, and have got interested in the idea of building a simple UI for end-user interaction with pandas DataFrame and Series objects. The idea being to streamline the initial exploratory data analysis process.  Sort of like an object-specific "watch" window that you'd use in a debugger.
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> It seems like the IPython communication model is ideal for that kind of thing, so I could potentially build a little UI analogous to the qtconsole which could subscribe to the server process and watch whatever object I'm interested in, and maybe have UI elements that issued python statements back to the server.  But I'm new to the dev side of IPython and haven't figured out where to start.
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> I'm curious to know if anyone has done anything like that before, and whether there are any examples I could work from.  Perhaps the "Hello World" of custom IPython clients?
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> Advice welcome,
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> Thanks,
> Patrick
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