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

#11

Post by vladoh » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 6:52 PM UTC

fendrak wrote: post #10

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.

"... autocompletes just about everything ..."

The problem is it cannot autocomplete this:

def example(a,b):

a.

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

#12

Post by tvon » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 6:59 PM UTC

xtacy wrote: post #5

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

Package managers aside, you can run:

    sudo easy_install bpython

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

#13

Post by srbloom » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 7:04 PM UTC

iron_ball wrote: post #2

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

I recently started using IPython, also with a comparable feature list: http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/

Does anyone know off the top of their head which of these is the most active?

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

#14

Post by jedbrown » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 7:11 PM UTC

vladoh wrote: post #11

fendrak wrote: post #10

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.

"... autocompletes just about everything ..." The problem is it cannot autocomplete this: def example(a,b): a.

Perhaps you'd like a static type system?

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

#15

Post by reynolds » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 7:12 PM UTC

This is pretty neat. I turned off auto_display_list and arg_spec (the autocomplete features). I'm not sure if it will replace my normal usage of IDLE, but I definitely dig the syntax highlighting and session history.

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

#16

Post by Goosey » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 7:16 PM UTC

The tutorial video was highly amusing.

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

#17

Post by necubi » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 7:17 PM UTC

Is there anything comparable for Ruby? I've looked for a nicer irb in the past, but found nothing. Might be a good weekend project.

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

#18

Post by mgrouchy » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 7:27 PM UTC

tvon wrote: post #12

xtacy wrote: post #5

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

Package managers aside, you can run: sudo easy_install bpython

or better yet

    sudo pip install bpython

should work anywhere you have pip installed and its the latest version

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

#19

Post by jcapote » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 7:36 PM UTC

necubi wrote: post #17

Is there anything comparable for Ruby? I've looked for a nicer irb in the past, but found nothing. Might be a good weekend project.

Check this out: http://sketches.rubyforge.org/

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

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 7:48 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.

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