[wxPython-users] Calling parent functions from an embedded pyShell??

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

On Nov 14, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Chris Mellon wrote:

> On Nov 14, 2007 1:16 PM, Patrick Van Pelt <patrick at laika.com> wrote:
>> Aha!  I new it would be simple!  Thank you so much, its working  
>> great now!
>>
>> One more simple question, though.  How can I capture the user's  
>> ENTER command after he has typed a command in the pyShell?  I  
>> tried doing the usual bind to the TEXT_ENTER event, but it doesn't  
>> seem to capture that.  I guess because pyShell is using it  
>> internally?  It looks like the pyShell object has some of its own  
>> event handler functions, but I'm not sure how to use those as they  
>> don't seem "bindable."  All I want to do is notify the parent  
>> window that the user has entered a command (and that it will  
>> probably need to update something)
>>
>
> Subclass from py.interpreter.Interpreter and override the "push"
> method, which is whats used to push text into the actual Python
> interpreter. You'll need to handle multi-line input, see the source
> for some details.
>
> You can then have your pyshell use your custom subclass by passing it
> as the interpClass parameter to py.shell.Shell.

You could also subscribe to interpreter.push events via the  
dispatcher.  It should be pretty easy to figure out how by looking at  
the source for the Dispatcher tab in PyCrust.

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