[Sugar-devel] modifying and reloading python code (was Re: Design help needed for web applications within Sugar)

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:45, Tomeu Vizoso<tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 22:02, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
>>
>> If "View Source" makes it to "Edit Source", it could be reasonable to
>> expect that if you do modify and then close the source editor you
>> would raise an Activity like alert bar with something like "Activity
>> needs to re-start for changes to take effect (Discard changes) (Re-
>> start activity)". I understand that Guido van Rossum had some
>> proposals for Sugar to pick up live Python edit changes, but I guess
>> that's water long under the bridge now given current Sugar Labs
>> resources.
>
> Didn't looked as something so ground breaking, I would say it's just
> waiting for someone to spend a weekend and come up with a prototype.

Looks like we may have a candidate, so here is the relevant post from Guido:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2007-February/007787.html

Have fun,

Tomeu