[Twisted-Python] Re: example stdin handling client that supports readline?

[Christopher Armstrong]

Michael Hudson wrote:
> Andrew Bennetts <andrew-twisted at puzzling.org> writes:

>>I'm not aware of anyone using readline with Twisted.  A couple of options
>>spring to mind:
>>    - use curses (see doc/examples/cursesclient.py for an example of using
>>      curses in Twisted) to make your own readline-like functionality
>>    - run readline in a thread, and get it to call
>>      reactor.callFromThread(something.gotStdinLine, ...) everytime a user
>>      hits enter.
>>    - just write a GUI interface, and forget readline ;)
> 
> 
> 4) check out pyrepl from CVS and help me debug the currently rather
>    hackish twisted support :-)
> 
> http://codespeak.net/pyrepl


Heeey, pyrepl is really cool... :-)

radix at radii ~/Projects/pyrepl/pyrepl% python python_reader.py

->> import sys; print sys.modules['twisted.internet.reactor']
<twisted.internet.default.SelectReactor instance at 0x40352e0c>
# woot, twisted's already being used :-)
->> from twisted.internet import reactor
->> from twisted.python.util import println
->> reactor.callLater(1, println, "\nhi!")
<twisted.internet.base.DelayedCall instance at 0x40522aac>
->>
     hi!

-- output there seems to do some weird stuff with whitespace, but 
anyway, this is pretty cool :-)



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