Re: interest for PARI/GP Jupyter notebook ?

Here is my kernel:
https://github.com/edgarcosta/pari-jupyter

To install it, you can do

pip install git+https://github.com/edgarcosta/pari-jupyter.git

or

sage -pip install git+https://github.com/edgarcosta/pari-jupyter.git

Best,
Edgar



On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 11:24 AM John Cremona <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I have used Jeroen's pari kernel, though not recently.  It is a very good
> platform for doing any kind of demo, for example of new pari/gp
> capabilities at an atelier, since you can have text cells as well as code
> cells so that's all you need for your talk.
>
> I am not a good person to help make this work though, since I do not have
> the necessary expertise.  When I just started up jupyter-notebook on my
> laptop it was not offering me a pari kernel, though I certainly did once
> have it working on the same machie, and I have completely forgotten what to
> do to install an extra kernel.
>
> I have not tried Edgar's kernel -- from what Pascal said that might be
> easier.
>
> John
>
> On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 15:34, Pascal Molin <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I started using pari-jupyter two months ago, and immediately switched to
>> Edgar's version because I had problems with the main pari-jupyter
>> (I do not remember precisely the issues, maybe it was slow or did not
>> support threads). I also think a xeus version would be nice.
>> Anyway I think I will use it on a regular basis now and could provide
>> feedback from myself and from students, and a bit of testing.
>>
>> Pascal
>>
>> Le ven. 12 mai 2023 à 15:34, Edgar Costa <[email protected]> a écrit :
>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>