May 19, 2015

Jonathan Slenders Talks About Prompt Toolkit

40 minutes

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Brief Introduction

Date of recording – May 17th, 2015

Hosts – Tobias Macey and Chris Patti

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Overview – Interview with Jonathan Slenders

Interview with Jonathan Slenders

Introductions

How were you first introduced to Python? -Chris

What inspired you to create the python-prompt-toolkit?

What are some design considerations that you made when building prompt-toolkit?

Make minimal use of inheritance

Overly strong coupling

Better clarity for the API of your library

Completely event driven / asynchronous

No global state

ptpython completion benefits from asynchrony – The jedi completion library is too slow – completion happens in its own thread

You have built a number of projects that use the prompt-toolkit as a core component, did you have them in mind from the beginning, or are they experiments to test the capabilities of the toolkit?

tmux rewrite in Python, abandoned, original motivation for prompt-toolkit

ptpython

pgcli

ptpdb

pyvim

Do you intend to bring PyVim to feature parity with Vim, or is it just intended for experimentation?

Short answer: Don’t know – but will probably never be in full parity with Vim

What inspired you to create ptpython and why did you choose to make it a stand-along project rather than extending iPython?

How difficult was it to integrate with IPython and what were the benefits?

IPython has its own event loop – this presented difficulties as prompt-toolkit has its own as well

What are some of the most interesting uses that you have seen of the prompt-toolkit?

PyVim – really challenged the design

pgcli

Picks

Tobias

vimsert

Johnny Cash Project

Interstellar

Chris

Grimm Telekinesis

pandoc

vimpager

Homebrew Cask

Jonathan Slenders

Belgian Beer

Rochefort

Western European Folk Dancing

Keep in touch

Twitter – @jonathan_s

GitHub – jonathanslenders

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May 19, 2015

Jonathan Slenders Talks About Prompt Toolkit

40 minutes

Visit our site at podcastinit.com for more show notes and news.

Brief Introduction

Date of recording – May 17th, 2015

Hosts – Tobias Macey and Chris Patti

Give us feedback! (iTunes, Twitter, email, Disqus comments)

Overview – Interview with Jonathan Slenders

Interview with Jonathan Slenders

Introductions

How were you first introduced to Python? -Chris

What inspired you to create the python-prompt-toolkit?

What are some design considerations that you made when building prompt-toolkit?

Make minimal use of inheritance

Overly strong coupling

Better clarity for the API of your library

Completely event driven / asynchronous

No global state

ptpython completion benefits from asynchrony – The jedi completion library is too slow – completion happens in its own thread

You have built a number of projects that use the prompt-toolkit as a core component, did you have them in mind from the beginning, or are they experiments to test the capabilities of the toolkit?

tmux rewrite in Python, abandoned, original motivation for prompt-toolkit

ptpython

pgcli

ptpdb

pyvim

Do you intend to bring PyVim to feature parity with Vim, or is it just intended for experimentation?

Short answer: Don’t know – but will probably never be in full parity with Vim

What inspired you to create ptpython and why did you choose to make it a stand-along project rather than extending iPython?

How difficult was it to integrate with IPython and what were the benefits?

IPython has its own event loop – this presented difficulties as prompt-toolkit has its own as well

What are some of the most interesting uses that you have seen of the prompt-toolkit?

PyVim – really challenged the design