I'm also looking forward to this and definitely willing to test this feature!
Keith On Thursday, September 12, 2013 10:18:44 AM UTC-4, William Cox wrote: > > Carlos, > This is great news! Thanks for the hard work. Looking forward to the > update. > -William > > On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 6:25:48 PM UTC-4, Carlos Córdoba wrote: >> >> Hi William, >> >> I'm afraid this is not possible at the moment. Right now Spyder can only >> introspect kernels started by itself (i.e. the ones used by our IPython >> consoles). The reasons lie in some technical difficulties we have to >> connect directly to any IPython kernel. We intend to fix them during the >> next six months or so. >> >> But the good news is that we already have a working prototype of a >> Notebook plugin for Spyder. We hope to make it publicly available before >> the end of the year. >> >> Cheers, >> Carlos >> >> El 11/09/13 13:43, William Cox escribió: >> > I am primarily a Matlab user trying to migrate to Python. Spyder's >> > Variable Explorer feature is very important to me. Recently I've been >> > experimenting with doing my workflow in an IPython Notebook, but I >> > dislike not having a Variable Explorer. My thought was that I could >> > simply tell Spyder to connect to the Notebook's kernel and then be >> > able to see the variables. This however, does not happen. I see in the >> > documentation here >> > (http://pythonhosted.org/spyder/ipythonconsole.html), "IPython >> > Consoles attached to external kernels support a smaller feature set:" >> > That reduced feature set doesn't include the Variable Explorer. Why is >> > this? Is there any suggested workaround for getting Notebook >> > functionality but still being able to interact with the workspace >> > variables? >> > Thanks! >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "spyder" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> > an email to [email protected]. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
