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# Module: `qt.base_frontend_mixin`

Defines a convenient mix-in class for implementing Qt frontends.

## 1 Class

class `IPython.qt.base_frontend_mixin.``BaseFrontendMixin`

  Bases: `object`

  A mix-in class for implementing Qt frontends.

  To handle messages of a particular type, frontends need only define an appropriate handler method. For example, to handle ‘stream’ messaged, define a ‘_handle_stream(msg)’ method.

  `kernel_client`

    Returns the current kernel client.

  `kernel_manager`

    The kernel manager, if any

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