#This package is no longer maintained since IDL now has an official Jupyter kernel #IDL/GDL kernel for IPython/Jupyter

Demo Notebook

To install:

This requires IPython >3.0 and Pexpect 3.3

python setup.py install --prefix=~/.local 

This should make an IDL directory containing the kernelspec in the ~/.ipython/kernels directory.

To run:

ipython console --kernel IDL 

or

ipython qtconsole --kernel IDL 

or

ipython notebook #Select kernel from dropdown menu