[IPython-dev] Runtime Console Using IPython

[Ivan Zhang]

Thanks for the tips, I actually saw that as well while I was making this.
My end goal for this tool is to facilitate remote access/monitoring of an
application without requiring other users to install something while
requiring minimal modification of the original application.

1.I actually think that's one of the keys to the notebook's success. So as
the next step, I was interested in exploring how to make a watered down
version of ipython's notebook that just had the web console part. Are there
any examples of this sort?

I tried looking at the notebookapp.py and it just seemed too daunting to
dig through. On the other hand, I made a tiny example using
BlockingKernelClient (
https://github.com/mirage007/rtconsole/blob/master/rtclient.py)
 to connect to an instance, but the messages i got back were very verbose.

Lastly, as I mentioned in the post, there is an issue where I cannot define
functions that uses variables that are supposedly already defined in the
user namespace.

i.e. in the ipython console, if i type:

>>> hello = lambda x: t+ 5

where t was defined in the original application locals()

it would give me an error:

"global name 't' is not defined"

Any idea of how to resolve this?

Thanks,

-Ivan

On Saturday, August 30, 2014, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ivan,
>
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Ivan Zhang <mirage007 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> As a way to familiarize myself with IPython, I wrote a simple tool that
>> allows an IPython Kernel to be run as part of a thread, effectively
>> creating a way to remotely monitor and change the state of a running
>> application in real time.
>>
>
> Great! Thanks for sharing that... I'm sorry that I haven't looked at your
> code in detail, but along those lines, I thought at least it would be
> useful to point you to these examples:
>
> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tree/master/examples/Embedding
>
> They illustrate how to embed a kernel in a process that may have its own
> event loop (Qt and Wx provided), and how to connect to it from an external
> Qt console, with both the Qt console and the GUI controls manipulating the
> same namespace.
>
> It's a different take on the same kind of ideas, and you may find it
> useful.
>
> Cheers
>
> f
>
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