True silent in OctaveEngine.eval

[yasirroni]

This is not an issue, but just asking for clarification or asking for feature.

I'm reading octave_kernel and planning to make the kernel execute or evaluate a code in octave, but without expecting a resp.

The code in

octave_kernel/octave_kernel/kernel.py

Line 243 in 31238ac

def eval(self, code, timeout=None, silent=False):

seems accept silent arguments, and that make stream_handler and line_handler to be None. But, it seems that some data still passed to resp.

Is it possible to make resp contain nothing, except meta information such as error or success? It is like skipping an ans from octave and not asking the ans value. It might be useful to reduce computation time or if ans contains big string .

[blink1073]

Makes sense to me, would you like to submit a PR?

[yasirroni]

I would like to, but after reading this repo, I think I need to learn meta_kernel, or even submit PR there first (?) and I'm afraid I can't make it.

Let this issue open for now then.