Interactive shell for demonstration purposes

Jp Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Wed May 11 09:18:08 EDT 2005


On Wed, 11 May 2005 13:55:38 +0100, Tim Golden <tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk> wrote:
>[Brian Quinlan]
>|
>| Can anyone recommend a Python interactive shell for use in
>| presentations?
>|
>| Ideal characteristics (priority order):
>| o configurable font size
>| o full screen mode
>| o readline support
>| o syntax coloring
>|
>| I've tried ipython but, since it runs inside a console
>| window, and the
>| console window has a limited number of selectable fonts, it doesn't
>| work terribly well.
>|
>| I've seen presentations using some sort of PyGame implemented shell.
>| Does anyone have an information on that?
>
>Warning: untested response.
>
>Since I remembered that Michael Hudson had done such
>a thing once, I Googled and came across this:
>
>http://codespeak.net/py/current/doc/execnet.html
>
>which might get you started.
>

  execnet lets you easily run arbitrary Python code on remote hosts.  This doesn't seem too closely related to the OP's question, which seems directed at finding a pretty GUI to display the results of such execution.

  Jp



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