Lua IPython Kernel

This is a kernel to support Lua with IPython. It is pure Lua and should work with both Lua and LuaJIT.

Requirements

The following Lua libraries are required:

• zeromq
• dkjson
• uuid

Here's how to install via LuaRocks:

# You need zeromq... on OSX I use Homebrew:
# brew install zeromq
# On Ubuntu:
# sudo apt-get install libzmq-dev

# The LuaRocks
sudo luarocks install https://raw.github.com/Neopallium/lua-zmq/master/rockspecs/lua-zmq-scm-1.rockspec
sudo luarocks install dkjson
sudo luarocks install uuid

Of course you also need to install IPython...

Installation

The installation process is janky right now.

• Install the Requirements above

• Create a profile with IPython

ipython profile create lua

• Modify the profile's ipython_config.py to use lua_ipython_kernel. This will be at either ~/.config/ipython/lua/ipython_config.py or ~/.ipython/lua/ipython_config.py:

# Configuration file for ipython.
   
c = get_config()
   
c.KernelManager.kernel_cmd = [
    "luajit",              # select your Lua interpreter here
    "ipython_kernel.lua",  # probably need full path
    "{connection_file}"
]
   
# Disable authentication.
c.Session.key = b''
c.Session.keyfile = b''

• Invoke IPython with this Lua kernel:

ipython console --profile lua
# or 
ipython notebook --profile lua

TODO

• Get the execute side of things working
• Go through all the TODOs in the source file
• Make a luarock spec
• Make an installer
• HMAC

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Andrew Gibiansky for his IHaskell article that inspired this.

Thanks to the makers of the dependencies of this library, who made this pretty easy to create: Robert Jakabosky, David Kolf, and Thijs Schreijer.

And of course thanks to the IPython folks .

LICENSE

lua_ipython_kernel is distributed under the MIT License.

lua_ipython_kernel

Copyright (c) 2013 Evan Wies. All rights reserved.

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