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

Irmen de Jong irmen at -NOSPAM-REMOVETHIS-xs4all.nl
Wed Dec 10 12:17:47 EST 2003


дамјан г. wrote:


> Put this in ~/.pythonrc, and setup the PYTHONSTARTUP environment variable to
> point to it: export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonrc
> 
> 
> # ~/.pythonrc
> # enable syntax completion
> try:
>     import readline
> except ImportError:
>     print "Module readline not available."
> else:
>     import rlcompleter
>     readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")

I say thank you !  This works like a charm.
Somehow I've never discovered rlcompleter... :-)

--Irmen





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