[vtkusers] iPython

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Charles,

	PYTHON_EXECUTABLE is used internally to run the VTK tests. You can do 
'grep -r PYTHON_EXECUTABLE *'.

HTH
Mathieu

Charles Moad wrote:
> That would only work when I have all the PYTHONPATH stuff set.  I was
> wanting to avoid that and make the "vtkpython" command default to
> ipython.  What is the point of the PYTHON_EXECUTABLE variable?
> 
> - Charlie
> 
> On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 09:53, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> 
>>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
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