Infrastructure changes to launch pyconsole interpreter process

src/calibre/utils/ipc/launch.py

@@ -22,13 +22,15 @@ class Worker(object):
     have the environment variable :envvar:`CALIBRE_WORKER` set.
 
     Useful attributes: ``is_alive``, ``returncode``
-    usefule methods: ``kill``
+    Useful methods: ``kill``
 
     To launch child simply call the Worker object. By default, the child's
     output is redirected to an on disk file, the path to which is returned by
     the call.
     '''
 
+    exe_name = 'calibre-parallel'
+
     @property
     def osx_interpreter(self):
         exe = os.path.basename(sys.executable)
@@ -41,32 +43,33 @@ class Worker(object):
 
     @property
     def executable(self):
+        e = self.exe_name
         if iswindows:
             return os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.executable),
-                   'calibre-parallel.exe' if isfrozen else \
-                           'Scripts\\calibre-parallel.exe')
+                   e+'.exe' if isfrozen else \
+                           'Scripts\\%s.exe'%e)
         if isnewosx:
-            return os.path.join(sys.console_binaries_path, 'calibre-parallel')
+            return os.path.join(sys.console_binaries_path, e)
 
         if isosx:
-            if not isfrozen: return 'calibre-parallel'
+            if not isfrozen: return e
             contents = os.path.join(self.osx_contents_dir,
                     'console.app', 'Contents')
             return os.path.join(contents, 'MacOS', self.osx_interpreter)
 
         if isfrozen:
-            return os.path.join(getattr(sys, 'frozen_path'), 'calibre-parallel')
+            return os.path.join(getattr(sys, 'frozen_path'), e)
 
-        c = os.path.join(sys.executables_location, 'calibre-parallel')
+        c = os.path.join(sys.executables_location, e)
         if os.access(c, os.X_OK):
             return c
-        return 'calibre-parallel'
+        return e
 
 
     @property
     def gui_executable(self):
         if isnewosx:
-           return os.path.join(sys.binaries_path, 'calibre-parallel')
+           return os.path.join(sys.binaries_path, self.exe_name)
 
         if isfrozen and isosx:
             return os.path.join(self.osx_contents_dir,

src/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py

@@ -80,8 +80,12 @@ def main():
     if isosx and 'CALIBRE_WORKER_ADDRESS' not in os.environ:
         # On some OS X computers launchd apparently tries to
         # launch the last run process from the bundle
+        # so launch the gui as usual
         from calibre.gui2.main import main as gui_main
         return gui_main(['calibre'])
+    if 'CALIBRE_LAUNCH_INTERPRETER' in os.environ:
+        from calibre.utils.pyconsole.interpreter import main
+        return main()
     address = cPickle.loads(unhexlify(os.environ['CALIBRE_WORKER_ADDRESS']))
     key     = unhexlify(os.environ['CALIBRE_WORKER_KEY'])
     resultf = unhexlify(os.environ['CALIBRE_WORKER_RESULT'])

src/calibre/utils/pyconsole/console.py

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ class Prepender(object): # {{{
         self.console.cursor_pos = self.opos
 # }}}
 
+
 class Console(QTextEdit):
 
     running = pyqtSignal()