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

Dang Griffith noemail at noemail4u.com
Wed Dec 10 08:18:10 EST 2003


On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:19:21 +0100, Irmen de Jong
<irmen at -NOSPAM-REMOVETHIS-xs4all.nl> wrote:

>Sean Richards wrote:
>
>
>> Tab completion for keywords and methods etc (you can get this in the
>> standard python shell as well of course)
>
>You can? How?
>
>--Irmen

Press tab after typing part of the keyword/method.

This assumes you're *not* using Win32.  The documentation says that
IPython requires the GNU readline function, which I guess isn't
available with Win32.  Neither is color highlighting.

   --dang




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