Re: GSOC 2017 Idea Using Python within Octave

[Colin Macdonald]

On 12/03/17 06:02 AM, Abhinav Tripathi wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 2:29 PM, KOUSTAV DAS <address@hidden
>     We all know that in a .php file we can write html and php code. They
>     are just differentiated on the basis of tags. I propose to do just
>     the same thing for python and octave. Let us integrate the compilers
>     of python and Octave. As soon as the lexical analyzer notices the
>     opening tag of the octave code the parser and the semantic analyzer
>     of octave handles the section. And as soon as the lexical analyzer
>     encounters the opening tag of the python the parser and semantic
>     analyzer of python is called.
>
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>
> If you still want to go on with your idea, you will have to search for a
> mentor who is interested in your idea...
> Or clone pytave repo, try to use it in octave and see its current
> functionality then come up with something to improve pytave.

Yes, +1.  This is well-said.  Thanks Abhinav and NVS for your comments 
on this thread.

I personally doubt there is much interest from current developers for 
building a brand new tool; I think most of us would rather improve 
existing tools (Pytave in this case).

Supporting calling both Python and Octave code within the same document 
might be do-able within Jupyter (apparently alreayd possible to mix R 
and Python within one notebook).  But I don't see that as a very high 
priority for the Octave project.  More important would be simply 
improving the Octave Kernel for Jupyter.

Colin