Re: interest for PARI/GP Jupyter notebook ?

Hi Bill,

I strongly believe that having a jupyter kernel lows the barrier of entry
to almost any language, and thus having one is worthwhile.
I am not a regular gp/pari user to help you with this one. I rarely write
any gp code, I usually call it from Magma/Sage/Bash.
However, whenever I need to write more than one line command, I do it via
some jupyter kernel, as I never remember the syntax, and this is a quick
way to figure out what works.


The Xeus version is quite tempting, as it is much more natural for gp/pari.
However, cypari issues should get fixed regardless, as these have broader
impacts.

Best,
Edgar

On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 8:41 AM Bill Allombert <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear PARI developpers,
>
> Some time ago, Jeroen Demeyer has written a PARI jupyter kernel which is
> now
> maintained mainly by Vincent Delecroix.
> <https://github.com/sagemath/pari-jupyter>
> this allows to create Jupyter notebook that uses PARI/GP.
>
> However I do not think Vincent is actually using it, and I know nobody
> that really use it, so I do not know how good is the user experience.
>
> This kernel is based on python and cypari which causes some technical
> issues.
>
> There have been two technically simpler alternatives, one using the GP
> binary
> directly (by Edgar Costa) and one using Xeus <
> https://github.com/jupyter-xeus>
> and libpari.
>
> However before pursuing this further, we need someone that is willing to
> use
> this kernel for actual applications, giving feedback and willing to test
> new
> version which compiling and installing them.
>
> So am I looking for someone interested to help.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill.
>