This package is originally from github.com/lstagner/idl_kernel and modified to work with Python 3.9. This repository also makes use of GDL to run IDL/GDL codes in Jupyter lab. This requires the following component:
apt.txtfor apt-installing the gnudatalanguage (gdl) component.
The current version was found to work with pexpect 4.6, jupyter 4.4, and jupyter-notebook 5.7. IDL also has an official Jupyter kernel.
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
jupyter notebook
#Select kernel from dropdown menu