Interacive Python console in SVG to view/change drawing objedts

This isn't possible at present, since there's no Python API. (All the Python extensions just operate on SVG files.)

If you meant this to be feature request, you should file a bug report for it.

Shouldn't it be easy to implement a script editor?
E.g. just like the filters are implemented?
That would be similar and would probably fulfil your needs.

e.g.
  you could have a text box in which to type a short script,
  and a "play" button that simply passes the SVG file through the python script, and re-loads it into inkscape

Isn't that what filters do normally? It would be great to have the text editor on screen so you could do this on the fly without having to separately write scripts, save, and load them into the main inkscape filters section.

the reason I think this would be useful is that, most of the tasks I want to automate are "one-off". I.e. I only want to do it once! I don't want it appearing on a menu. I just want to type a couple of lines, and pass the file through that.

I have created an extension that provides this functionality!
You can write up to 5 lines of python script, and an Xpath selector, inside a dialog box.
see <a href="http://www.smanohar.com/inkscape.php">my inkscape extension page<a> for download.

On 2014-08-21 17:56 , sgmanohar wrote:
> I have created an extension that provides this functionality! You can
> write up to 5 lines of python script, and an Xpath selector, inside a
> dialog box. see <a href="http://www.smanohar.com/inkscape.php">my
> inkscape extension page<a> for download.

Sounds interesting - unfortunately, there's no obvious way to download the the zip archive with the extension … the link with the title "Download .zip" just points to the top-level home page ( href="http://www.smanohar.com/" ).

Whoops! link is fixed now. Sorry about that.

Whoops! forgot to put the link. Should work now.

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 5:46 PM, ~suv <email address hidden>
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> Question #100981 on Inkscape changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/100981
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> ~suv proposed the following answer:
> On 2014-08-21 17:56 , sgmanohar wrote:
> > I have created an extension that provides this functionality! You can
> > write up to 5 lines of python script, and an Xpath selector, inside a
> > dialog box. see <a href="http://www.smanohar.com/inkscape.php">my
> > inkscape extension page<a> for download.
>
>
> Sounds interesting - unfortunately, there's no obvious way to download the
> the zip archive with the extension … the link with the title "Download
> .zip" just points to the top-level home page ( href="
> http://www.smanohar.com/" ).
>
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