Syntax highlighting, auto complete and more within Python interpreter

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Post by tzury » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 4:45 PM UTC

Syntax highlighting, auto complete and more within Python interpreter
bpython-interpreter.org

Re: Syntax highlighting, auto complete and more within Python interpreter

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Post by iron_ball » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 5:12 PM UTC

Also check out DreamPie [ http://dreampie.sourceforge.net/ ], which is damn good, and has a comparable feature list.

Re: Syntax highlighting, auto complete and more within Python interpreter

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Post by vladoh » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 5:15 PM UTC

I think Eclipse + PyDev has more to offer.

Re: Syntax highlighting, auto complete and more within Python interpreter

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Post by j_baker » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 5:26 PM UTC

Last time I tried out bpython, it seemed to crash at the slightest hint of any error. I'll have to try it again and see if it's improved.

Re: Syntax highlighting, auto complete and more within Python interpreter

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Post by xtacy » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 5:44 PM UTC

Did I miss something? How do I start this thing? Couldn't find it on Documentation..

Re: Syntax highlighting, auto complete and more within Python interpreter

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Post by SandB0x » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 5:46 PM UTC

xtacy wrote: post #5

Did I miss something? How do I start this thing? Couldn't find it on Documentation..

$ sudo apt-get install bpython

$ bpython

Or similar if you have a different package manager. You can also build from source: http://bpython-interpreter.org/releases/bpython-0.9.7.tar.gz

ie, this isn't something you can run in your browser.

Re: Syntax highlighting, auto complete and more within Python interpreter

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Post by mdwrigh2 » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 6:00 PM UTC

j_baker wrote: post #4

Last time I tried out bpython, it seemed to crash at the slightest hint of any error. I'll have to try it again and see if it's improved.

After playing with it for a few minutes, and throwing some intentional errors at it, it seems relatively stable.

Re: Syntax highlighting, auto complete and more within Python interpreter

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Post by jmatt » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 6:31 PM UTC

SandB0x wrote: post #6

xtacy wrote: post #5

Did I miss something? How do I start this thing? Couldn't find it on Documentation..

$ sudo apt-get install bpython $ bpython Or similar if you have a different package manager. You can also build from source: http://bpython-interpreter.org/releases/bpython-0.9.7.tar.gz ie, this isn't something you can run in your browser.

For those mac users out there, Macports is currently at 0.9.6.2.

  sudo port install py26-bpython

Re: Syntax highlighting, auto complete and more within Python interpreter

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Post by steiger » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 6:34 PM UTC

vladoh wrote: post #3

I think Eclipse + PyDev has more to offer.

You can't really compare them. Eclipse is a full-featured, lots-of-megabytes IDE. BPython is just steroids for the Python interpreter.

Re: Syntax highlighting, auto complete and more within Python interpreter

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Post by fendrak » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 6:37 PM UTC

My favorite reaction to bpython was showing it to somebody, watching them use it for about 30 seconds, and them watching them alias it to 'python' without even thinking :) It blows the default python interpreter environment out of the water: it remembers history between sessions, autocompletes just about everything, and even has a shortcut for dumping code out to Pastebin.