Okay, I've made some progress. Turns out, I was erroneously assumed I was in an IPython shell because it had 'magics', but it was just the idle interpreter, (never spent much time in Idle). All it took was creating a new shell config, and ticking the IPython box.
I'm going paste in some of the shell interaction with comments interspersed and a question. Python 3.7.7 (default, Apr 15 2020, 05:09:04) on Windows (64 bits). This is the Pyzo interpreter with integrated event loop for PYQT5. Using IPython 7.13.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. ? -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features. %quickref -> Quick reference. help -> Python's own help system. object? -> Details about 'object', use 'object??' for extra details. In [1]: whos #this is before I started "launchLeo.py" with F5 Interactive namespace is empty. In [2]: (executing file "launchLeo.py") Qt WebEngine seems to be initialized from a plugin. Please set Qt::AA_ShareOpenGLContexts using QCoreApplication::setAttribute before constructing QGuiApplication. Leo 6.3-devel, devel branch, build cbb73524c3 2020-04-15 04:24:37 -0500 Note on using QApplication.exec_(): The GUI event loop is already running in the pyzo kernel, and exec_() does not block. In most cases your app should run fine without the need for modifications. For clarity, this is what the pyzo kernel does: - Prevent deletion of objects in the local scope of functions leading to exec_() - Prevent system exit right after the exec_() call In [3]: whos #note our workspace is now populated with stuff from Leo! Variable Type Data/Info ---------------------------------------- leo module <module 'leo' from 'c:\\v<...>ditor\\leo\\__init__.py'> load_locals dict n=6 runMainLoop_locals dict n=1 run_locals dict n=4 In [4]: g.commander_command('new') # naive attempt open a new file in Leo --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NameError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-4-c784551296f6> in <module> ----> 1 g.commander_command('new') NameError: name 'g' is not defined /* Hmm, 'g' is not availible, let's try a fully qualified name, reaching down from the 'leo' we saw from In [3]: whos : */ In [5]: leo.commands.commanderFileCommands.new() # so here is my question,what should I use for my argument? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-5-0f3e5c284e86> in <module> ----> 1 leo.commands.commanderFileCommands.new() TypeError: new() missing 1 required positional argument: 'self' In [6]: The question is at In [5] above, I guess it would be 'g.app', but 'g' isn't available, any suggestions? Doing things like this is the reason I first started looking at IPython, to provide a way to explore Leo code. Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/28f56ca2-3181-4595-8fb3-a9b567bdb8e5%40googlegroups.com.