How to integrate into django manage shell

[flisky]

Hi ivanov,

I'm very interested in howto integrate this plugin into django shell management command.

Basically, django uses ipython (if ipython is present) as interactive shell for enhancement. And django offers a hook (by subclass) to customize this behavior. Please see django changeset #14895.

My question is that could we get the ipython running information, something like --existing --shell=xxx --iopub=xxx --stdin=xxx --hb=xxx, which is required by this plugin(?) without running qtconsole? If it couldn't, how to embed qtconsole in the django manage shell?

Hope it's a right place to ask this question. Sorry for my poor English.
And please let me know if it's a stupid question, since there is an old way: just setup django environment when qtconsole starts up, which I do not really like.

Thanks,

[ivanov]

My question is that could we get the ipython running information, something like --existing --shell=xxx --iopub=xxx --stdin=xxx --hb=xxx, which is required by this plugin(?) without running qtconsole

yes, qtconsole is not required. From vim-ipython README: In the current git trunk of IPython, you can use ipython kernel to create a kernel and get the connection string to use for any frontend (including vim-ipython). If you are still using 0.11, you can launch a regular kernel using python -c "from IPython.zmq.ipkernel import main; main()

As far as implementing this functionality in Django, as far as I know, you can currently do the equivalent of ipython kernel using the python API, and get the connection information to use for vim-ipython - but there isn't currently a way to hook up an old-school terminal-based ipython session to it - I believe this functionality is being worked on in ipython/ipython#708

It's not a stupid question at all - it's just more of a question for IPython itself - so I encourage you to ask it on the IPython-User list

[ivanov]

I'll go ahead and close this issue - please reopen it if you need further changes in vim-ipython to make the Django shell interaction work.

[flisky]

Thank you so much. No more questions:)

[davnustratbac]

Hi guys, not sure if this is useful or if im out of date here, but ive found a partial solution to this issue, im using django-extensions and ipython installed in the virtualenv. i have then added 'console' to the django extensions params as ...

IPYTHON_ARGUMENTS = [
'console'
]

in django settings.py

after firing up vim and making sure all vim-ipython requiremets were met && i was editing a .py file
i could send to the ipython session and had access to the dynamically loaded ipython session into django, I have not had chance to test all the functionality but it appears to be working in a basic manner. would be interested to hear if this helps
Ipython 3.2.1
django 1.8
django-extensions 1.5.7
vim 7.4.827
Cheers D