Collecting Python's responses.

[Jacek Generowicz]

I'm looking for ways of creating annotated records of Python
interactive sessions, for documentation purposes. For example,
something like

# dir shows the contents of the namespace ['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__']
# Addition works too 3

However, I would like to automate the incorporation of Python's actual
output, so I would like to run a program which looks something like
this:


session(text('dir shows the contents of the namespace'),
code('dir()'),
text('Addition works too'),
code('1+2'))

which would somehow send the code to a Python process, collect the
response, and interleave the two with the annotation text to create
HTML output, or commented Python source code (or some other format for
which I provide a back end).

Does anything like this exitst? If not, any suggestions how best to go
about it. (The popen family seems unsuitable because of buffering
deadlocks, I'd rather not use telnetlib ...)

 

[Peter Hansen]

Jacek Generowicz wrote:

[...]

Does anything like this exitst? If not, any suggestions how best to go
about it.

Would it be possible just to do it in the local process, using
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-code.html ?

Or if there's a reason not to do it locally, then do it through
sockets but still using that...

-Peter

 

[Lonnie Princehouse]

You might be able to subclass code.InteractiveInterpreter to do this.

 

[Jacek Generowicz]

Jacek Generowicz wrote:

[...]

Does anything like this exitst? If not, any suggestions how best to go
about it.

Would it be possible just to do it in the local process,

That's exactly what my prototype does.

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-code.html ?

Ah, this looks interesting. Thanks.

 

[Fernando Perez]

I'm looking for ways of creating annotated records of Python
interactive sessions, for documentation purposes. For example,
something like

# dir shows the contents of the namespace['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__']
# Addition works too3

However, I would like to automate the incorporation of Python's actual
output, so I would like to run a program which looks something like
this:

[snip]

This could be an easy addition to ipython (http://ipython.scipy.org). It
already has all the display hooks in place, and in fact the output handler is
user-accessible.

Cheers,

f