Some improvements

[shawwn]

Your project is awesome! I spent some time making a bunch of additions, which you can find here: master...shawwn:master

Basically I improved the interop between python and emacs. EmacsValues now implement __iter__, __len__, __eq__, __repr__, __int__, float`, etc.

You can even index into cons lists by doing e.g. F.list(42, 99, 100)[1] or F.buffer_list()[2].

I love your project -- Thanks so much for making it!

[zielmicha]

Thank you for your contribution – I'll try to review it quickly.
Just to confirm - I realized that there is no LICENSE file in this repo, but it was intended to be released with MIT license (which is compatible with GPL used by Emacs). Are you okay with your code being released with this license too?

[shawwn]

Oh yes, MIT is perfect!

[shawwn]

Lots of people expressed interest in this, both on twitter (https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1472371143000707075) and in IRC. I think this is a marvelous idea.

I wrote a setup guide for getting a Python-Emacs REPL up and running: https://gist.github.com/shawwn/64e17ac3f7b272ce0ce16eb6a593b107

I was surprised, both at how effortless it felt to do crazy things, and also how useful it feels in practice. I code mostly in Python nowadays, but no other language has ever matched emacs' editing power -- for example, now I can just write F.untabify() instead of tracking down some Python equivalent that may or may not exist.

There are some weird quirks, but that's to be expected. (It looks like Python doesn't get an exit notification, which means all of the atexit hooks don't run, which ends up causing readline history not to be written to disk on exit. And sys.interactivehook (or whatever it is) wasn't running on startup, so I had to all it manually. But all of that is really quite minor compared to the power you get.)

I'm mostly shocked that no one noticed this for two years, but hats off to you for making such a cool thing. (Please come back to twitter! The more hackers tweeting about stuff like this, the better.)