Connect ipython shell to running panel server

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This would be a really nice supplement to interactive development loops with panel. Is it known how to do this easily?

Thanks!

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Hi @LinuxIsCool

The next version of Panel (and the current master branch) contains a general purpose terminal based on xterm.js. You can easily run any terminal process including ipython using it.

Check out the Reference Notebook on Binder or PR.

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ps. Depending on your use case you could also consider adding a python terminal that runs in the browser only. I have some code based on Brython. And it should also be possible to create one based on Pyodide.

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Thanks @Marc, the panel terminal is really cool.

However, I was thinking of something more like an ipython shell inside of my terminal when I run panel serve for example:

panel serve app.py --autoreload -i ipython

Similar to the django shell for those familiar.

Thanks!

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Update!

The following seems to work:

import threading
from IPython import start_ipython

def start_ipython_in_thread(namespace):
    start_ipython(argv=[], user_ns=namespace)

# Pass the main thread's namespace to the IPython instance
ipython_thread = threading.Thread(target=start_ipython_in_thread, args=(globals(),))
ipython_thread.start()

Add the above code to your app.py.

Then when you serve:

panel serve app.py

Then your console will drop into ipython with the appropriate namespace after serving the app.

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