[SciPy-User] Pylab - standard packages

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:39 PM,  <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Stata and matlab have a much nicer interaction of shell and editor,
> and data viewer, and ...
> and they work after clicking a few install buttons (and paying first of course).
>
> Obviously I'm in a minority, I like Windows (TM), GUIs, spyder, git
> gui and use ipython only in emergencies.

But within spyder, you still surely use a python shell of some sort,
yes? And isn't ipython a superior option to the regular python repl
for these purposes?

(Personally I just use ipython at the terminal, and I've really only
trained my fingers to always start ipython instead of python in the
last few months.)

-n