Embed interactive shell (VTE) in a PyGtk GUI to manipulate its own widgets

Question

I am planning to do the folliwing:

Create a PyGtk GUI (hardcoded, no Glade) with some widgets, and at the bottom of the screen put some sort of VTE (Virtual Terminal Emulator) from where I could manipulate the widgets, for example changing their attributes and calling their methods from the commandline.

The result would be similar to using AutoCAD's commands, only that I would be acting upon the GUI objects.

I have already found very few things about gtk.VteTerminal widget, but not only could not find a working example or make one myself, it also seem to be a system terminal, not a "current session" python terminal where I could run python commands and access GUI objects.

Any suggestion?

Thanks for reading

Answer 1

What you want exists already: GtkParasite. It's meant for debugging, but I'm sure if you wanted it to actually be a part of your application, you could adapt it.

Answer 2

I'm late to the party, but I had a similar problem. Look here Virtual Terminal Question

It's an option if you decide to do something different than what you might have already done.