Interactive browser-based console for any Python Gist

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Post by hjwp3 » Thu, May 02, 2013, 4:43 PM UTC

Interactive browser-based console for any Python Gist
pythonanywhere.com

Re: Interactive browser-based console for any Python Gist

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Post by lampington » Thu, May 02, 2013, 4:47 PM UTC

Clever, but what would you use it for?

Re: Interactive browser-based console for any Python Gist

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Post by hjwp3 » Thu, May 02, 2013, 4:54 PM UTC

lampington wrote: post #2

Clever, but what would you use it for?

Thanks! We were thinking it would be useful for people posting solutions to stackoverflow questions, and also maybe people doing remote-pair-programming, as a way of sharing code with an interactive terminal to work through ideas... Or perhaps for people writing tutorials...

Re: Interactive browser-based console for any Python Gist

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Post by hjwp3 » Thu, May 02, 2013, 5:15 PM UTC

it's fun watching curious people snooping around! !cat /etc/passwd would you eh?

Re: Interactive browser-based console for any Python Gist

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Post by RyanMcGreal » Thu, May 02, 2013, 5:18 PM UTC

lampington wrote: post #2

Clever, but what would you use it for?

Why, to play Rock, Paper, Scissors, of course!

https://www.pythonanywhere.com/gists/459573/rps.py/ipython2/

Re: Interactive browser-based console for any Python Gist

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Post by hjwp3 » Thu, May 02, 2013, 5:19 PM UTC

RyanMcGreal wrote: post #5

lampington wrote: post #2

Clever, but what would you use it for?

Why, to play Rock, Paper, Scissors, of course! https://www.pythonanywhere.com/gists/459573/rps.py/ipython2/

awesome. Rock, every time.

Re: Interactive browser-based console for any Python Gist

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Post by hjwp3 » Thu, May 02, 2013, 5:21 PM UTC

hjwp3 wrote: post #6

RyanMcGreal wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why, to play Rock, Paper, Scissors, of course! https://www.pythonanywhere.com/gists/459573/rps.py/ipython2/

awesome. Rock, every time.

sure enough -- might have taken me 5 goes (computer isn't that stupid, it knows rock is the best too)... but eventually it cracked. one-nil!

Re: Interactive browser-based console for any Python Gist

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Post by codegeek » Thu, May 02, 2013, 6:00 PM UTC

Awesome. Not to mention that even tab/auto-complete works.

Re: Interactive browser-based console for any Python Gist

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Post by jholman » Thu, May 02, 2013, 6:14 PM UTC

Nice work, and I wish you success.

In the same space, I recently discovered http://c9.io , which I'm pretty happy with overall. Very rich feature-set, and it seems to be open source. (I say "seems" because I haven't checked to see if the OSS code is enough to replicate the site on my own hosting.) Although I've had some squirrelly save/load behaviour, which was concerning.

Re: Interactive browser-based console for any Python Gist

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Post by tocomment » Thu, May 02, 2013, 6:54 PM UTC

It seems like a cool service, are you charging enough though?

I made a site in a similar vein a few years ago but it never really caught on. Maybe we should chat.