[vtkusers] iPython

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>>>>>>"CM" == Charles Moad <cmoad at indiana.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>     CM> 	How would I go about making vtkpython run ipython
>     CM> 	instead of normal
>     CM> python?  I set PYTHON_EXECUTABLE to /usr/bin/ipython, but
>     CM> running vtkpython still invokes the normal python shell.
> 
> vtkpython -c "from IPython.Shell import IPShellEmbed; ips =IPShellEmbed(); ips()"
> 
> Put that in a script and use that.  Read the example-embed.py example
> in the IPython sources if you want to do more fancy stuff.
> 

Or the contrary

ipython -c "import vtk; s = vtk.vtkSphereSource"

:)
Mathieu