exposing tkconsole with shell in IDLE/IDLEfork

[James Tauber]

As a way of achieving my previously mentioned goal of an interactive
Python prompt that can embed non-text in the output window, I made the
following modification in PyShell.ModifiedInterpreter.__init__ in IDLE
(that shipped with 2.2.3)

    def __init__(self, tkconsole):
        self.tkconsole = tkconsole
        locals = sys.modules['__main__'].__dict__

        # ADDED THIS LINE
        locals["tkconsole"] = tkconsole

        InteractiveInterpreter.__init__(self, locals=locals)
        self.save_warnings_filters = None

This works great! But trying the same thing in IDLEfork 0.9b1 doesn't
work. "tkconsole" is nowhere to be seen in the shell's locals.

So I have two questions:

  - is this the best way to expose tkconsole to the interactive prompt?
  (to enable python functions to output graphics, etc embedded in the
  output window)
  - what would I need to do to get this to work with IDLEfork?

Thanks

James
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