Re: [Visualpython-users] vpython and ipython

Hi all,

Visual use a gtk main loop to manage the display.

the ipython -gthread switch will do the trick.

Using the pylab switch instead will start the pylab interface using the
backend configured on your matplotlib (~/matplotlib/matplotlibrc on Linux.)

On ubuntu the default backend is gtk so

ipython -gthread
or

ipython -pylab

has the same effect, except some numpy function which are directly imported
in the global namespace.

HTH,
Michele.


On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Guy K. Kloss <g....@ma...> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:49:07 Venkat Ramanan wrote:
> > I installed VIDLE and that works for me as well. I don't know if I can
> > fix the issues with ipython, but I'll try.
>
> If one looks at the documentation/tutorials for matplotlib (-pylab), Mayavi
> (-
> wthread), ... one finds that for ipython you need to start it with an extra
> parameter (the ones mentioned in parens above). The problem being that for
> GUI
> tools in order to function within the same process there's an event loop.
> But
> an interactive shell is somewhat of an event loop in itself. So some de-
> coupling needs to be done to integrate the two event loop concepts with
> each
> other. ipython provides that through the switches.
>
> I'd imagine that this was also one of the motivations to provide VIDLE over
> plain IDLE, although I've never used IDLE myself. Maybe one of the provided
> ipython switches would also help with VPython, or another one would need to
> be
> created to make them interact nicely. Definitely sounds like something that
> could be quite useful ...
>
> Guy
>
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