sublimetext2 - Running Python interactively from within Sublime Text 2

Question

I have looked at all the answers on this forum but I'm missing something. I want to be able to hit Cmd+B while editing a Python file "myfile.py" in Sublime Text 2.

This should open up a Python shell that loads my file and returns me to the interactive prompt so the namespace in my Python script is available.

Setting the -i option in the build setting still closes the interpreter (see below)

> 81
> >>>  [Finished in 0.1s]

I downloaded sublimeREPL but I'm not sure how to set the -i option.
Any help is appreciated

Answer 1

ok, thanks to sneawo for the hints! Here's my first cut at doing this.

Step 1. Create a plugin pydev, (from Tools->New Plugin) which creates a command 'pydev'

import sublime, sublime_plugin

class PydevCommand(sublime_plugin.WindowCommand):
    def run(self):
        self.window.run_command('set_layout', {"cols":[0.0, 1.0], "rows":[0.0, 0.5, 1.0], "cells":[[0, 0, 1, 1], [0, 1, 1, 2]]})
        self.window.run_command('repl_open',{"type": "subprocess",
                                             "encoding": "utf8",
                                             "cmd": ["python2.7", "-i", "-u", "$file"],
                                             "cwd": "$file_path",
                                             "syntax": "Packages/Python/Python.tmLanguage",
                                             "external_id": "python2.7"
                                             })
        self.window.run_command('move_to_group', { "group": 1 }) 

Step 2. Create a new key binding in the Preferences->Key-Bindings-user

{"keys": ["f5"], "command": "pydev"}

Now pressing f5 (on the Mac it will be fn+f5 by default) does the trick-it will start the python interpreter in a repl tab, set the layout to two-window horizontal and move the repl tab to the lower window.

This is pretty basic in that it doesn't check to see what the current layout is and simply sets the layout to 2-horizontal. Will probably spruce up the code to do some checking and simply add a horizontal window to the existing layout. Also would be good to remove the horizontal buffer when the repl tab is closed.