Syntax highlighting, auto complete and more within Python interpreter • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by emehrkay » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 7:57 PM UTC

Wow this is nice. I'd love to have the auto complete in Textmate.

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

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Post by vladoh » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 7:57 PM UTC

jedbrown wrote: post #14

vladoh wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Perhaps you'd like a static type system?

My point exactly

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

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Post by guns » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 8:12 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.

For autocompletion add

    require 'irb/completion'

to your ~/.irbrc. If you want auto-indentation:

    IRB.conf[:AUTO_INDENT] = true

If you're a Vim user, you can edit code inside of a Vim buffer with the interactive_editor gem:

    http://vimcasts.org/episodes/running-vim-within-irb/

or for a more SLIMEy experience, you can try ScreenShell, which allows you to send code from Vim in one GNU Screen window to another running irb, or the interpreter of your choice.

    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1098876

If you just want to stick to improving the irb experience, the Pickaxe book has a good section on customizing irb:

    http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/irb.html

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

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Post by redraga » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 8:25 PM UTC

xtacy wrote: post #5

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

Fedora users can install it as:

yum install bpython

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

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Post by mpobrien » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 8:38 PM UTC

This looks very handy. It would be nice if this could be extended to wrap around a Jython shell, presenting a nice way to quickly browse through javadoc info as well.

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

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Post by nitrogen » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 8:57 PM UTC

This is awesome. Just yesterday I was this close to posting an Ask HN looking for a syntax highlighting REPL, and considering writing one myself someday if nobody else does.

My addiction to syntax highlighting can now be satisfied without having to fire up Vim or gedit to edit a script. Maybe if I think hard enough about posting an Ask HN for a syntax highlighting bash command prompt, someone will write one of those, too ;).

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

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Post by pbogdan » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 9:15 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.

also: http://pablotron.org/software/wirble/

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

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Post by yummyfajitas » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 10:18 PM UTC

srbloom wrote: post #13

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?

I suspect IPython is.

I know a number of people using ipython, but I've never heard of the others before today. Ipython is widely used by the scipy crowd, at the very least.

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

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Post by counter_ » Thu, Jul 22, 2010, 10:20 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.

    * wirble: for syntax highlightning
    * bond: for more advanced autocompletion
    * utilitybelt: for pastebin-like commands
    * sketches: for editing and evaluating code easily
    * boson: command framework for creating libraries of commands to be loaded as needed
    * hirb: framework for associating views per class

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

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Post by ndunn2 » Fri, Jul 23, 2010, 2:33 AM UTC

This is awesome. But the colors seem to interact badly with the terminal backgrounds in Mac OSX. I also can't get any of the function shortcuts (F8 = pastebin) to work; I just get gibberish instead. Also I get a crash when I resize the window:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/bpython", line 8, in load_entry_point('bpython==0.9.7', 'console_scripts', 'bpython')() File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bpython-0.9.7-py2.5.egg/bpython/cli.py", line 1739, in main banner=banner) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bpython-0.9.7-py2.5.egg/bpython/cli.py", line 1636, in curses_wrapper return func(stdscr, args, *kwargs) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bpython-0.9.7-py2.5.egg/bpython/cli.py", line 1706, in main_curses clirepl.repl() File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bpython-0.9.7-py2.5.egg/bpython/cli.py", line 996, in repl inp = self.get_line() File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bpython-0.9.7-py2.5.egg/bpython/cli.py", line 589, in get_line key = self.get_key() File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bpython-0.9.7-py2.5.egg/bpython/cli.py", line 567, in get_key self.idle(self) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bpython-0.9.7-py2.5.egg/bpython/cli.py", line 1579, in idle do_resize(caller) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bpython-0.9.7-py2.5.egg/bpython/cli.py", line 1591, in do_resize curses.endwin() _curses.error: endwin() returned ERR