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Backport PR #5488: Added missing require and jquery from cdn. For some reason (I suppose some changes at the css level) the font size inside the input cells was fixed at 14 px... making the fonts really small in the reveal slideshows. This is really annoying... As a plus, I have also added the missing calls for require and jquery (as the full html template does). I think these fixes belong to 2.0, but I also know we are on the edge... so I hope to get it inside :wink: Cheers.

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Variable Inspector Widget

A short example implementation

This notebook demonstrates how one can use the widgets already built-in to IPython to create a working variable inspector much like the ones seen in popular commercial scientific computing environments.

In [1]:
from IPython.html import widgets # Loads the Widget framework.
from IPython.core.magics.namespace import NamespaceMagics # Used to query namespace.

# For this example, hide these names, just to avoid polluting the namespace further
get_ipython().user_ns_hidden['widgets'] = widgets
get_ipython().user_ns_hidden['NamespaceMagics'] = NamespaceMagics
In [2]:
class VariableInspectorWindow(object):
    instance = None
    
    def __init__(self, ipython):
        """Public constructor."""
        if VariableInspectorWindow.instance is not None:
            raise Exception("""Only one instance of the Variable Inspector can exist at a 
                time.  Call close() on the active instance before creating a new instance.
                If you have lost the handle to the active instance, you can re-obtain it
                via `VariableInspectorWindow.instance`.""")
        
        VariableInspectorWindow.instance = self
        self.closed = False
        self.namespace = NamespaceMagics()
        self.namespace.shell = ipython.kernel.shell
        
        self._popout = widgets.PopupWidget()
        self._popout.description = "Variable Inspector"
        self._popout.button_text = self._popout.description

        self._modal_body = widgets.ContainerWidget()
        self._modal_body.set_css('overflow-y', 'scroll')

        self._modal_body_label = widgets.HTMLWidget(value = 'Not hooked')
        self._modal_body.children = [self._modal_body_label]

        self._popout.children = [
            self._modal_body, 
        ]
        
        self._ipython = ipython
        self._ipython.register_post_execute(self._fill)

    def close(self):
        """Close and remove hooks."""
        if not self.closed:
            del self._ipython._post_execute[self._fill]
            self._popout.close()
            self.closed = True
            VariableInspectorWindow.instance = None

    def _fill(self):
        """Fill self with variable information."""
        values = self.namespace.who_ls()
        self._modal_body_label.value = '<table class="table table-bordered table-striped"><tr><th>Name</th><th>Type</th><th>Value</th></tr><tr><td>' + \
            '</td></tr><tr><td>'.join(['{0}</td><td>{1}</td><td>{2}'.format(v, type(eval(v)).__name__, str(eval(v))) for v in values]) + \
            '</td></tr></table>'

    def _ipython_display_(self):
        """Called when display() or pyout is used to display the Variable 
        Inspector."""
        self._popout._ipython_display_()
        self._popout.add_class('vbox')
        self._modal_body.add_class('box-flex1')
In [3]:
inspector = VariableInspectorWindow(get_ipython())
inspector

Test

In [4]:
a = 5
In [5]:
b = 3.0
In [6]:
c = a * b
In [7]:
d = "String"
In [8]:
del b