[IPython-dev] Twisted reactor + IPython0

[Brian Granger]

Noooooo ;-).  Please, don't start doing stuff like this without all of
us discussing the best direction.  The parallel computing stuff in
IPython1 is designed to work with IPython0 and uses a very carefully
crafted approach for integrating with the Twisted main loop.  Doing
something like this could easily break IPython1 for the many current
users - even if it is optional, I don't want it in IPython0.  More
discussion is needed first.  Sorry I don't have more time to
participate in the discussion right now - if you are interested in how
we are handling this in IPython1, please look at that code base.  What
ever ends up in IPython0 _must_ be compatible with that.

Brian

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Ville M. Vainio <vivainio at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  >  It would certainly be great to have this done in ip0 as an optional
>  >  component: we could always tell our users: you have two options for
>  >  gui support:
>
>  It's in trunk now. It's still a threads-based hack, in that ipython
>  mainloop runs in a thread, but now the mainloop is a twisted reactor.
>  See IPython/twshell.py. You can try it out by "python twshell.py".
>  kbdint and Exit seem to work.
>
>  I used the stuff from mtexp branch, so macros should work, and it
>  should survive reactor death (5 sec timeout as before). Now, I gotta
>  run, but someone might want to take a look at it.
>
>
>  --
>  Ville M. Vainio - vivainio.googlepages.com
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