Swanky Python: Interactive development for Python

Scott Zimmermann (he/him) - sczi@disroot.org

Format: 20-min talk ; Q&A: Etherpad
Status: Waiting for video from speaker

Description

Project repository: https://codeberg.org/sczi/swanky-python/

I'm working on a development environment for Python based on Emacs' SLIME mode for Common Lisp. In this talk I'll demonstrate some of its features, like an object inspector, interactive backtrace buffer, thread and async task viewer, and function tracer. I'll also discuss its implementation and limitations, along with future directions for the project.

This project aims to bring a Lisp and Smalltalk inspired style of development to Python. You get a faster feedback loop by developing inside a running python process without needing to restart your program and lose state on changes, allowing you to immediately inspect the results of code you write. We can also provide more advanced tooling based on runtime introspection, as we have more information available at runtime than is available to traditional tools based on static analysis of source code, mainly we have the actual values of variables rather than just their types.

About the speaker:

Python is eating the world. Emacs is eating my computing environment. I'm attempting to get them working together.

Questions or comments? Please e-mail sczi@disroot.org

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