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A follow up on this question - if I have two python shells running in emacs, how can I designate which shell commands from each python script buffer is sent to? I suspect it has something to do with python-buffer and python-set-proc but setting these variables to the name of the shell is apparently not the solution.

Edit: actually since I am using python-mode rather than loveshack python, it probably does not have to do with python-buffer and python-set-proc.

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You can set a new value to python-buffer.

(defun my-python-set-proc (buffer-name)
  (interactive "B")
  (setf python-buffer (get-buffer buffer-name))
  (python-set-proc))

And then M-xmy-python-set-procRET*Python*RET, or M-xmy-python-set-procRET*Python*<2>RET.

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  • Thanks - it was my mistake that I suggested `python-buffer` and `python-set-proc` as they appear to be relevant variables for loveshack python rather than `python-mode`. – hatmatrix Nov 30 '11 at 21:05
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In any Python buffer, you can use the variable py-which-bufname to control which Python shell your code gets sent to when executing it. The variable is buffer-local, so in order to set it to a custom value you'll need to change it from within the buffer by pressing M-: and entering the following 

(setq py-which-bufname "My-Custom-Bufname")

This also makes it easy to quickly create new process buffers: If you set py-which-bufname to a name for which there is no corresponding process buffer, you can just issue C-c ! to quickly create one.

HTH

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  • Case closed! Thanks - this is exactly what I needed. – hatmatrix Mar 07 '12 at 15:12
  • This variable does not seem to exist anymore. As this question arrived first on my search engine, here is the modern way. The variable is now named `python-shell-buffer-name`. By using `add-file-variable`, you can define a buffer-specific value to this variable with a string, like `"TOTO"`. It will then create a buffer named `*TOTO*` with the python shell. – Lalylulelo Nov 25 '21 at 12:30
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py-shell-name sets the default, which might be overwritten by command

Should the buffer code contain a shebang specifying pythonVERSION , than this takes precedence over default setting.

You may enforce executing buffer through specific pythonVERSION by calling a command of class py-execute-buffer-pythonVERSION

See menu PyExec, entry Execute buffer ...

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