[Tutor] Joy of PythonWin

[ibraheem umaru-mohammed]

[D-Man wrote...]
<snip>
-| I don't use an IDE (I prefer gvim and some xterms).  On Unix and on
-| Windows with Cgywin (version 2.1) the interactive python interpreter
-| has support for the GNU readline library.  This is the same library
-| that bash uses for it's input.  To get that sort of functionality you
-| need a python interpreter with readline support.  Then see the man
-| page for inputrc -- ~/.inputrc is the config file for readline.  A
-| little while back someome posted a description of how to get
-| commandline history, tab completion, and vi-style line editing
-| commands.  It is all done through readline and the .inputrc file.  I
-| don't know if PythonWin will work with the cygwin-enabled interpreter
-| or if it needs it's own modified interpreter.
-| 
</snip>

	>>> import rlcompleter
	>>> import readline
	>>> readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")

Kindest regards,

	--ibs.

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