This worked for me, but it is definitely hackish and cumbersome. You
basically define the function in a string, exec the string to create
the function, and then use the function interact, instead using the
decoration @interact. (I've read it is frowned up, but...)
# first cell
fields = ['a','b','c','d','e']
init_values = [10,15,31,14,-5, 6]
fields_def = ','.join(['%s=%d' % t for t in zip(fields,init_values)])
fdef= 'def _(' + fields_def + '):\n' \
+ '\tprint sum([' + ','.join(fields) + '])\n'
print fdef # just to check
# second cell
exec(fdef)
interact(_)
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Jonathan Gutow <gu...@uwosh.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm probably being dense here....But would appreciate any suggestions/
> help. What I want to do is ask students to interactively input a
> variable number of expressions based on some randomly generated
> 'story' problems (actually chemical kinetic mechanisms). I can
> generate the problems and check them, but cannot figure out how to
> make the @interact construct accept a variable number of
> input_boxes. Is it possible, and, if so, how?
>
> thanks,
> Jonathan
>
> Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow
> Chemistry Department gu...@uwosh.edu
> UW-Oshkosh Office:920-424-1326
> 800 Algoma Boulevard FAX:920-424-2042
> Oshkosh, WI 54901
> http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/gutow/
>
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