This is a great project that's been posted here on HN a couple of times already. I like this project a lot but I can't use it on my Mac because it swallows all the libedit/readline keyboard shortcuts I've come to expect from any REPL. Shame.
Bpython is a fancy interface to Python
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Re: Bpython is a fancy interface to Python
#12Bpython is good, but IPython with %edit and knowledge of a command line text editor has changed my workflow[1]. I wish more repls had this ability.
[1]: Maybe you can do it Bpython and I'm just not aware.
Re: Bpython is a fancy interface to Python
#13Bpython is good, but IPython with %edit and knowledge of a command line text editor has changed my workflow[1]. I wish more repls had this ability. [1]: Maybe you can do it Bpython and I'm just not aware.
I don't know what %edit does, but if I guess that it has something to do with an editor, I use this in my dotfiles:
https://github.com/Julian/dotfiles/blob/master/.pythonrc#L55
which is perfectly REPL agnostic.
I prefer bpython over iPython for a bunch of reasons that I can't easily elaborate on from here on my mobile, but is definitely suggest people try them both out.
Re: Bpython is a fancy interface to Python
#14I'm finding it extremely buggy. For example - pressing F8 when no code has been entered yet causes a TypeError. I will post this on the mailing list but considering it's an old (~4yrs?) project I'm surprised such issues haven't been fixed.
I'm not able to replicate that on my machine.
> bpython version 0.10.1 on top of Python 2.7.3
Re: Bpython is a fancy interface to Python
#15Bpython is good, but IPython with %edit and knowledge of a command line text editor has changed my workflow[1]. I wish more repls had this ability. [1]: Maybe you can do it Bpython and I'm just not aware.
I don't know what %edit does, but if I guess that it has something to do with an editor, I use this in my dotfiles: https://github.com/Julian/dotfiles/blob/master/.pythonrc#L55 which is perfectly REPL agnostic. I prefer bpython over iPython for a bunch of reasons that I can't easily elaborate on from here on my mobile, but is definitely suggest people try them both out.
That's pretty nifty - thanks.
EDIT: Also, I have used bpython, but since I use python more on the data side as opposed to web (or something not data) IPython along with everything else make it too good to not use.
Re: Bpython is a fancy interface to Python
#16You can install bpython with a simple "pip install bpython". (This isn't immediately obvious from the website.)
Re: Bpython is a fancy interface to Python
#17I'm finding it extremely buggy. For example - pressing F8 when no code has been entered yet causes a TypeError. I will post this on the mailing list but considering it's an old (~4yrs?) project I'm surprised such issues haven't been fixed.
I'm not able to replicate that on my machine. > bpython version 0.10.1 on top of Python 2.7.3
bpython version 0.12 on top of Python 2.7.3
Re: Bpython is a fancy interface to Python
#18You can install bpython with a simple "pip install bpython". (This isn't immediately obvious from the website.)
I don't know if it's still like that, but last time I checked, I had to invoke
python -m bpython.cli
Re: Bpython is a fancy interface to Python
#19Tried "pip install bpython" on Windows 7, but I get an ImportError: No module named _curses.
Re: Bpython is a fancy interface to Python
#20This is a great project that's been posted here on HN a couple of times already. I like this project a lot but I can't use it on my Mac because it swallows all the libedit/readline keyboard shortcuts I've come to expect from any REPL. Shame.
Anyone know of a fix?