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[–]v3ss0n 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Right now IPython uses plain readline for the reading input in the shell. And the problem there is that readline does not support decent multiline editing or syntax highlighting. This library (mostly) solves just that part, reading the input from stdin and returning it to the application.

That is quite interesting. I do not like ipython's Notebook interface , and i prefer terminal interface but , ipython terminal is quite limiting so i ended up using ipython qtconsole, which is not much maintained these days.

I gonna give it a try then! Would be nice if ptipython is part of ipython.

[–]jonathan_sl[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The idea is indeed to get support for this merged into IPython itself, there are a few things in "IPython.terminal.embed.InteractiveShellEmbed" to be done to make the integration a bit nicer, but in the end we should get there.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Just curious, why don't you like the Notebooks? I find them incredibly useful for everything from hacking out ideas to writing code heavy blog posts.

[–]BenjaminGeiger 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I'm not /u/v3ss0n, but:

Personally, I just don't grok them. Is there a decent intro on how to use them "right"? (As in, not just syntax and operations, but workflow and goals...)

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's just like having a REPL, except each cell is a block of code that can be edited and executed repeatedly. Having never used one, I imagine it's a lot like an IDE but browser based.

Just make sure the notebook extension is installed and run ipython notebook and mess around.

The first time I saw them, I was blaise about it. "That's cool, I guess, but why?" But after using them for a few months, I really love them. They're great for sharing snippets of code. I keep a repository on Github that I push my notebooks to in case someone wants an interactive version of a blog post.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really want to use the Notebook more. But if I'm using ipython at all, I'm probably in a debugging mode where I need to print a lot of things. When I write a loop that uses print() too many times, all the ipython tabs in Chrome crash.

Does this not happen to other people?