GUI interactive prompt with non-text output

[Tim Churches]

James Tauber wrote:
> Is anyone aware of extensions to a GUI interactive prompt (such as
that
> in IDLE) where the statements executed might be able to produce a
> graphical output after the input prompt as well as text (as you would
get
> if you did a "print").
> 
> I'm thinking along the lines of Mathematica, although another useful
> mental picture might be a board game where you enter your move at a
> prompt and then the board is drawn before giving you another prompt
> (which the ability to scroll back to see the boards after each move).

Have a look at PyCrust - see http://www.orbtech.com/www/PyManual.html
Or if want a higher level interface to wxPython, try PythonCard (see
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/) - see Figure 5 of the turtle example
at http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/samples/turtle.html - is that what
you had in mind?

Tim C