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Hi all, While in Maryland to discuss PLN and attention allocation with Ben in OpenCog [1], we discussed the idea of a OpenCog shell. There exists a nmsh in Novamente, which remotely connects and issues commands to a Novamente server. It allows manipulation and inspection of the AtomSpace. However, this implementation is currently difficult for introducing new commands. One idea, brought up in conjunction by myself and Moshe, was to use Swig [2] bindings to create a direct foreign library interface. This doesn't provide a remote shell, but allows a variety of scripting language interfaces. I'm personally fond of Python (although not blindly so), and thought it'd be neat to use a Python shell to interact with OpenCog. This comes naturally with the Swig binding, and one could make use of an enhanced Python shell such as IPython [3] which can be extended to have application specific features. Lastly, by utilising the Twisted [4] Python libraries, it's possible to create a remote python shell relatively easily [5]. However recent developments in IPython may mean that it can provide this remote access directly. Thoughts? J [1] http://brainwave.opencog.org/2008/05/22/a-week-in-maryland/ [2] http://www.swig.org/ [3] http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/ [4] http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ [5] http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/SSH-with-Twisted/
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