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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?
- 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
- Chris
- Jonathan Slenders
- Belgian Beer
- Western European Folk Dancing
Keep in touch
- Twitter – @jonathan_s
- GitHub – jonathanslenders
