I think the answer is yes (at least for me). A behavior like the one of ipyhton is fine.
Eric, is DreamPie able to run parallel jobs like IPython or not ? If not, are you thinking to support a behavior like that ? I think it is very useful for trying to run parallel jobs interactively, most of all if you want to test MPI programs. 2010/9/6 Noam Yorav-Raphael <noamr...@gmail.com>: > The intended audience of IPython and DreamPie is, I think, quite > similar. Perhaps DreamPie is more suitable for less computer-savvy > people, as it is a GUI application and not a terminal-based one. > > I've seen that "ipython --pylab" goes to interactive mode by default, > and has a %run command which runs scripts in non-interactive mode. > Will a behavior like this be fine? > > Thanks, > Noam > > > > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: >> >> On 09/02/2010 07:47 PM, Noam Yorav-Raphael wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I'm the developer of DreamPie, a new graphical Python shell (you can >> > check it out at http://dreampie.sourceforge.net ) >> > >> > I worked to make it work nicely with matplotlib -- it runs Tk/GTK/Qt >> > event loops when idle, so if matplotlib is in interactive mode it >> > works great. I even made DreamPie check if matplotlib in >> > non-interactive mode is present, and if so it shows you a message >> > suggesting that you switch to interactive mode. >> > >> > Lately I thought that it may be much easier for users if DreamPie >> > would just switch matplotlib to interactive mode automatically. >> > However, I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea of changing >> > settings silently. >> > >> > I wanted to ask: what do you think? Are there any cases when you want >> > to have matplotlib in non-interactive mode in a shell? >> >> At least with ipython, yes--the point of non-interactive mode is that >> the show() function blocks, so it can be used in scripts in which the >> user is supposed to see a plot, dismiss the window, see another plot, >> etc. Again, at least with ipython, one wants to be *able* to run scripts >> exactly as they would run from the command line. >> >> Whether this sort of thing matters for DreamPie depends on the intended >> uses and users. >> >> Eric >> >> > >> > Also, are there any other ways in which DreamPie can be made more >> > matplotlib-friendly? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Noam >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: >> > >> > Show off your parallel programming skills. >> > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. >> > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Matplotlib-users mailing list >> > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: >> >> Show off your parallel programming skills. >> Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > -- Michele De Stefano http://www.linkedin.com/in/micdestefano http://code.google.com/p/mds-utils http://micheledestefano.xoom.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
