""" A demo of the Qt console-style IPython frontend. """ # Systemm library imports from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui # Local imports from IPython.external.argparse import ArgumentParser from IPython.frontend.qt.kernelmanager import QtKernelManager def main(): """ Entry point for demo. """ # Parse command line arguments. parser = ArgumentParser() group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group() group.add_argument('--pure', action='store_true', help = \ 'use a pure Python kernel instead of an IPython kernel') group.add_argument('--pylab', action='store_true', help='use a kernel with PyLab enabled') parser.add_argument('--rich', action='store_true', help='use a rich text frontend') namespace = parser.parse_args() # Don't let Qt or ZMQ swallow KeyboardInterupts. import signal signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_DFL) # Create a KernelManager and start a kernel. kernel_manager = QtKernelManager() if namespace.pure: kernel_manager.start_kernel(ipython=False) elif namespace.pylab: if namespace.rich: kernel_manager.start_kernel(pylab='payload-svg') else: kernel_manager.start_kernel(pylab='qt4') else: kernel_manager.start_kernel() kernel_manager.start_channels() # Launch the application. app = QtGui.QApplication([]) if namespace.pure: from frontend_widget import FrontendWidget kind = 'rich' if namespace.rich else 'plain' widget = FrontendWidget(kind=kind) else: if namespace.rich: from rich_ipython_widget import RichIPythonWidget widget = RichIPythonWidget() else: from ipython_widget import IPythonWidget widget = IPythonWidget() widget.kernel_manager = kernel_manager widget.setWindowTitle('Python' if namespace.pure else 'IPython') widget.show() app.exec_() if __name__ == '__main__': main()