[IPython-dev] Embed IPython console into a web-app GUI

[Kiko]

2014-09-27 20:34 GMT+02:00 Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com>:

> Hi Adamos,
>
> There are two answers to this:
>
> First, you can embed a terminal emulator in your application, and run
> plain terminal IPython. This is what Pythonanywhere and Wakari do. The
> existing packages for this that I'm aware of to do this in Python -
> shellinabox and GateOne - are GPL and AGPL licensed respectively, so
> unfortunately we can't use them in IPython. As it happens, I'm currently
> working with R. Saravanan to clean up the BSD-licensed terminal emulator
> component of his Graphterm project. This provides a Python backend for the
> MIT-licensed term.js Javascript terminal emulator.
>
> If you're interested in this, I'm working on this in a branch here:
> https://github.com/takluyver/pyxterm/tree/teardown
>
> The second answer is to actually build a proper web console interface,
> reusing pieces from the IPython notebook machinery. This would be more
> work, but could provide a much nicer interface, because it's not
> constrained by the limitations of the tty interface, which was originally
> designed for computers to drive an electronic typewriter. We do want to get
> to this, because it would be useful to have such a console available in the
> notebook interface.
>
> I hope that's useful - feel free to ask if you have more questions. And
> thanks for the link to Muntjac, it looks like an interesting project.
>
> Best wishes,
> Thomas
>
> On 27 September 2014 01:33, Adamos Kyriakou <somada141 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I’ve been searching for a while for a way to embed an IPython terminal
>> into a web-app GUI, in particular one created with Muntjac
>> <http://www.muntiacus.org/> (a pythonic version of Vaadin
>> <https://vaadin.com>), but to no avail. While there’s tons of material
>> on how to embed it in Qt/wx/Tk
>> <http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/stable/interactive/reference.html#embedding> applications
>> and the like, I haven’t found a decent solution for a web-app. On the other
>> hand I’m confident it’s possible as the guys at PythonAnywhere
>> <https://www.pythonanywhere.com/try-ipython/> and Wakari
>> <https://www.wakari.io> have pulled it off.
>>
>
It is not IPython but maybe it could be useful for your use case:
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/anonymous/b86d66089a29ff2bef5e

All is running on the client.



>
>> Any ideas on how this could be achieved?
>>
>> Thanks a bunch!
>>
>> PS. As you can see this question has been asked a number of times on
>> different platforms but without a definitive answer:
>>
>> http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/ipython-dev/2013-October/012505.html
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11264918/how-to-embed-a-python-interpreter-on-a-website
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17014868/add-an-ipython-console-to-a-webpage
>>
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