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Re: Integrating Google Docs, Chrome, and IPython

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Post by takluyver » Sun, May 18, 2014, 6:25 PM UTC

akanet wrote: post #4

If anyone else is interested in real-time collaborative IPython environments, check out https://coderpad.io/ . It's less focused on the data analysis side and more focused on collaborative coding for interview environments. You get a full IPython shell with most of the niceties (syntax highlighting, exception captures, etc).

SageMathCloud (https://cloud.sagemath.com/) also does real-time collaboration on IPython notebooks.

Re: Integrating Google Docs, Chrome, and IPython

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Post by bsg75 » Sun, May 18, 2014, 7:11 PM UTC

An unanswered question in the G+ discussion is how libraries not in the default config can be added. Can I "pip install" into a NaCl IPython kernel?

Re: Integrating Google Docs, Chrome, and IPython

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Post by bussiere » Sun, May 18, 2014, 7:14 PM UTC

will it be possible to have an email when it's ready ?

Re: Integrating Google Docs, Chrome, and IPython

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Post by mturk » Sun, May 18, 2014, 7:32 PM UTC

bsg75 wrote: post #12

An unanswered question in the G+ discussion is how libraries not in the default config can be added. Can I "pip install" into a NaCl IPython kernel?

No, not quite. It depends on if the library is pure python. If it is, then adding support for pip install is possible, but not implemented. If it's not pure python, it is a lot harder -- it has to be statically linked into the PNaCl executable, which sometimes requires a bit of patching the code. For example, to get pandas in, I had to modify how it included np_datetime, and to get HDF5 in I had to pre-generate how it managed endianness.

That being said, I've been working on making it easier for pure python importing, and one fun thing is that you can actually mount an HTTP/CORS-accessible endpoint as a file system and import that. I have done this with a pastebin; I turned on CORS, mounted it inside the NaCl kernel, and executed pastes.