[IPython-dev] Using IPython notebooks to teach Python

Moritz Beber moritz.beber at gmail.com
Fri Aug 22 08:12:54 EDT 2014


>
> I have just discovered this project:
>
> https://github.com/cni/ipython-hydra
>
> Which seems even closer to yours than ipydra.
>
> Are you able to say what differs between your project and this one?
> Is it just a matter of one having a web interface and the other not, or
> can you see other differences?
>
>
The main difference is explained in one of their paragraphs:

"addldapuser will add a new user to the system, if they don't already
exist. It must be run as root. The password is disabled because we use
Stanford's kerberos authentication, so if users log in via ssh they can
authenticate with their SUNet ID and password. The new user is also added
to the ipython group. If the user exists in Stanford LDAP, then their UID
will be assigned by the LDAP result. Otherwise, a local UID is used."

They integrated it with an LDAP server and that is something I shied away
from. The integration with that LDAP server is hard coded into their bash
scripts so it would have taken me some time to decouple it. On top of that
I needed to run the server both on Mac and Linux, so it was easier for me
to use Python for that cross-platform compatibility.

Another difference is that they spawn notebooks and then check the port
assigned whereas my script assigns the port deterministically (but does not
actually check whether that port was already in use before - so that's
desperately needed). So assigning ports beforehand (with the proper checks)
might be nicer when you need to open firewall ports only in a certain range.

I wouldn't mind improving the whole script to update it to the new IPython
2.0 and make it Python 3.0 compatible, and use a simple sqlite database. I
have time for that after September 8. If that's not too late for you, we
could then also talk about specific problems and feature requests.

Cheers
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