should i switch to IPYTHON interpreter? What is the killer feature of it?

Gary Bishop gb at cs.unc.edu
Wed Dec 10 20:36:28 EST 2003


?????? ?. <mk at net.mail.penguinista> wrote:
> # ~/.pythonrc
> # enable syntax completion
> try:
>     import readline
> except ImportError:
>     print "Module readline not available."
> else:
>     import rlcompleter
>     readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")

This will work on win32 as well if you download ctypes and then my
python implementation of gnu readline from

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/uncpythontools/readline-1.1.zip?download

It also includes the ability to translate ascii color escapes into
colors on windows for use with iPython.

gb





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