Implement `*PYTHON`

[germa89]

• Implement testing for *PYTHON command, since it provides a window to PyMAPDL inside MAPDL.
  • First implement just a few basic text based test
  • Implement full regression tests in a selfhosted machine.
• Consider a Kubernetes implementation for this (and all workflows requiring selfhosted inside the network)

Pinging @koubaa for visibility.

[mikerife]

I'm having a hard time understanding why I would want to use *PYTHON when running PyMAPDL...what's the point?

[germa89]

Because Python inside MAPDL inside Python... inception 😉

I'm having a hard time understanding why I would want to use *PYTHON when running PyMAPDL...what's the point?

From my perspective, there are not that many cases for the normal user. However, executing Python in MAPDL is useful. You could, for instance (as commented with @koubaa ), implement the PyMAPDL server side in Python (it is easier than in C++), and then just having *PYTHON to start that server. You can also use *PYTHON to start an ssh server in your MAPDL instance (a bit of a security breach in here). You could also spawn another process that will watch for MAPDL main process and make sure it is restarting after crashing... the possibilities are endless.

I'm actually looking forward to see what we can do with this command:

Last Inception gif...