On Tuesday 07 November 2006 14:14, Christian wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > > > I use REPL extensively while programming in Lisp and Python. Is there > > > any way to enable REPL in TurboGears? It would be nice to be able, for > > > example, to perform some queries or redefine some functions on a > > > running server. > > > > I think the concept of a event-loop (as in web-server and gui apps for > > example) doesn't fit too well with a REPL. > > Actually, it can work quite well. There are a number of ways to > accomplish this with CherryPy (and thus TurboGears, I imagine). > > > what I do is this: I put the following snipplet on a piece of code I > > want to dig into, and possibly experiment: > > > > import pdb > > pdb.set_trace() > > Here are some other options: > > HTTPREPL - http://projects.amor.org/misc/wiki/HTTPREPL > Probably your best option. In browser REPL to let you interactively > poke around in your running app. There is no built in security, so > don't just make this available on your public app ;-) > > Using the interpreter directly - > http://blog.dowski.com/2006/03/05/cherrypy-and-the-interactive-interpreter/ > This is a handy way to get inside of your app if you don't want to do > it through the web. Plus, it doesn't require any additional packages > to install - just CherryPy/TurboGears and the good ol' interactive > interpreter. > > Also, as Kevin mentioned in the comments of my blog posting on the > interactive interpreter, it sounds like TurboGears has some sort of > built in interpreter in the toolbox.
ah, one never stops learning. Thanks for the suggestions. I still like my approach to debug errornous code when the full request/response context is available. But that doesn't make the real repl useless. Thanks, Diez --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
