On 05/29/2014 03:36 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote:
Hello Lyxers
I wonder why LyX is not available to process little pieces of python
code within its own framework, like ipython notebook for instance??
This feature allows us to have beautiful graphics such the one
produced by matplotlib package. I know there already exists a similar
binding for R through knitr module, so why not a binding for python too??
Is there a way, like modules or whatever, to achieve the same
functionality or at least some basic functionality of ipython notebook
within LyX??
Can you be more precise about what you want to do? I've never heard of
ipython notebook.
Sweave works by our having an output format (sweave) for such
documentsand then our declaring Rscript as a sweave --> LaTeX converter,
so PDF export (say) goes via Rscript and pdflatex. There's a special
script in lib/scripts/ that "sets up some things for LyX"first, or so it
claims. It would be reasonably easy to do the same sort of thing for
Python, if you wanted to do so. You'd just need to set up an appropriate
format and then declare an appropriate script as a whatever -> latex
converter. Then LyX will run the script and do as you wish with the
embedded python code.
Of course, as we've discussed on the list with respect to R, there are
large security issues here, too.
Richard
