Comments on: Reinteract 0.5.0

By: Josef Pktd

Josef Pktd — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:53:53 +0000

I liked it and wanted to write some doctests with it until I didn’t get the results that I expected.

try this in reinteract versus python

d=[5, 1]
e=d
d,e
d[0]=6
d,e

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:20:55 +0000

I haven’t tried reinteract since your first release/blog post about it. I just tried this new version, and I love it. It’s great to see how well it’s developing on its potential, and I’d even begin to describe it as getting polished .

I hope that some day all python editors include such a repeatable interactive interpreter. Imagine if you had a second pane with a .py file, and the rectangles automatically changed to yellow when you edited any part of the .py which would affect the experiments/tests you had in your reinteract pane. I know that would match how I work very well. In the mean time, being able to work and re-work defs and classes inside reinteract and see what effect that has on the following statements will be very nice, and I can always copy/paste when done.

By: Steven Kryskalla

Steven Kryskalla — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:10:45 +0000

Great! As much as I use the interpreter this will be a great help. I love being able to go back and change the definition of something to see how execution changes. For me this is the missing link for the Python interpreter

I think it’s a great tool to write code by experimenting, especially for people who may be learning Python.

My one feature request would be the ability to redirect output to another pane instead of having it displayed inline.

Thanks!

By: Owen

Owen — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:05:18 +0000

Søren – while certainly some of the code and ideas would apply to other backend languages, there’s a lot of extra simplicity when you stick to one language. And I’m more interested in doing a really good job for Python than trying to cover a huge range of languages like Sage does.

Tomasz – Hmm. There’s definitely some good soc-scale projects possible.

By: vitriolix

vitriolix — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:42:55 +0000

Very cool, I was just pimping this project to a friend the other day and was disappointed that it looked like it had stalled out. Downloading now…

By: Tomasz Melcer

Tomasz Melcer — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:32:10 +0000

You rock

This is what I was waiting for… and, if you’re interested, you could try to get someone working on it too during google’s summer of code. Talk to Arc at #gsoc-python at freenode.