GtkPyInterpreter

This widget implements a simple interactive Python command line in a Gtk.TextView. The implementation is pure Python and makes use of code.InteractiveInterpreter included in the Python standard library. Since GtkPyInterpreter uses Gtk3, it heavily depends on GObject introspection (PyGObject).

Features

• input and output of the Python interpreter in Gtk.TextView widget
• support for multiline code input
• command history
• tab completion
• pass predefined locals to the widget that become available in the interpreter
• various settings to change the appearance
• signals for stdout and stderr write operations
• include graphics in the output

The screenshot below shows the use of the widget as a matplotlib shell (this example can be be found in the 'demo' directory).

Known bugs/limitations

• no setup.py yet

• no support for raw_input

• output is displayed after the command returned, i.e. running something like

  for i in range(0, 10):
    time.sleep(1)
    print i

  will block for 10 seconds and after that display the full output at once.

Dependencies

The only dependency is the PyGObject introspection module that can be found in the package repositories of most Linux distributions.

Installation

There's no setup.py installation script yet, so to use the package gtkpyinterpreter just copy the complete package directory to a location in your Python path.

License

GPL 3