How to embed a Python interpreter in a PyQT widget

Question

I want to be able to bring up an interactive python terminal from my python application. Some, but not all, variables in my program needs to be exposed to the interpreter.

Answer 1

Not sure of what you want exactly but have tried to save the widget content into a a temporary file and pass it to a standard python interpreter with Popen ?

Doc is here : http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.5/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen

Example :

import tempfile, os, sys, subprocess

# get the code
code = get_widget_content()

# save the code to a temporary file
file_handle, file_path = tempfile.mkstemp()
tmp_file = os.fdopen(file_handle, 'w')
tmp_file.write(code)
tmp_file.close()

#execute it
p = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, file_path], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

# wait for the command to complete 
p.wait()

# retrieve the output:
pyerr = p.stderr.readlines()
pyout = p.stdout.readlines()

# do what ever you want with it
print(pyerr)
print(pyout)