[vtkusers] running python from the interpreter

[Eduardo Suarez]

Thanks a lot for the details, i'll think about that.

-Eduardo

Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>>>>>>"ES" == Eduardo Suarez <eduardo at ctm.ulpgc.es> writes:
> 
> 
>     ES> Thanks a lot for your comment. My main problem is that i'm
>     ES> also using itk and it takes a lot to load the itk module every
>     ES> time i need to restart again.
> 
> If you need to do things from the interpreter, you should really pick
> a good interactive interpreter to work with.  I prefer using IPython
> (http://ipython.scipy.org).  Recent versions allow one to run wxPython
> and PyGTK apps interactively using the -wthread and -gthread options.
> On a vanilla Python shell or on an IPython shell you can always run a
> Tkinter app interactively, the only problem being that tk.mainloop
> will block.  To get around this, you can either write some code (in
> your .python for example) to hijack Tkinter's mainloop to do nothing
> or make sure you don't call mainloop.  Alternatively, try using
> MayaVi's ivtk module to view actors interactively on a vanilla Python
> shell or IPython: http://mayavi.sourceforge.net/docs/guide/x975.html#IVTK
> 
> If you choose to use Pycrust, I think you can run wxPython
> applications interactively but Pycrust isn't as robust as I'd like.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> cheers,
> prabhu