[SciPy-User] ANN: IEP 2.3 (the Interactive Editor for Python)

[Sebastian Haase]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Almar Klein <almar.klein at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am pleased to announce version 2.3 of IEP, the interactive Editor for
> Python.
>
> IEP is a cross-platform Python IDE focused on interactivity and
> introspection, which makes it very suitable for scientific computing. Its
> practical design is aimed at simplicity and efficiency.
>
> website: http://code.google.com/p/iep/
> downloads: http://code.google.com/p/iep/downloads/list (binaries are
> available for Windows, Linux and Mac)
> group: http://groups.google.com/group/iep_
>
> Release notes (see here for more):
> - IEP now uses the BSD license (instead of GPL).
> - Binaries are now also available for 64bit Linux and Mac.
> - Improved the interactive help; it looks better and can show numpy
> docstrings well.
> - Source structure tool can now also show class attributes (in addition to
> methods).
> - New Workspace tool.
> - New File browser tool which has the ability to search inside files.
> - New (very limited) webbrowser tool.
> - IEP uses the guisupport.py module to integrate the event loops for GUI
> toolkits.
> - The GTK event loop can now also be integrated.
> - Many bug/issue fixes ...
>
> Cheers,
>
>   Almar

Hi Almar,

this is really very exciting - congratulations !!
What do you mean by:   - The GTK event loop can now also be integrated.
?
How does this compare to how it was done before ?
And what would you do for wxPython ?

Thanks,
Sebastian Haase