Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Interactive interpreter in PyObjC

[Bob I. <bo...@re...>]

On Oct 27, 2003, at 8:47 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> I started working on an interactive in-process interpreter for PyObjC 
> applications.  Here's what it does so far:
> 	Simple coloring of sys.stdout and sys.stderr
> 	Supports unicode (but assumes non-unicode is utf8 for now)
> 	Command history (up key, down key)
> 	Limits editing and cursor position (but not selection) to ONLY the 
> active line of code
> 	All the nice things that editing in a NSTextView gives you
>
> Obvious future enhancements would be:
> 	Auto indent
> 	Syntax highlighting
> 	Completion
> 	sys.stdin (for raw_input and such -- might be too hard to do without 
> stackless, threads, or other nasty stuff)

Ok I fixed some nasty bugs (thanks Just), use this one now:  
http://undefined.org/python/PyInterpreter-0.1.tgz

I also added sys.stdin.readline support (which gives you raw_input as 
well) in a similar way to how the MacPython IDE does it: A modal 
NSPanel input dialog (yay).  It's ugly but it works.

-bob