should i switch to IPYTHON interpreter? What is the killer feature of it?

[дамјан г.]

>>>>Tab completion for keywords and methods etc (you can get this in the
>>>>standard python shell as well of course)
>>>
>>>You can? How?
>> 
>> Press tab after typing part of the keyword/method.
> 
> Sean was talking about the 'standard python shell' so I tried
> the default python (2.3) on my mandrake 9.2 box.
> It doesn't work, it just inserts a tab character.

Put this in ~/.pythonrc, and setup the PYTHONSTARTUP environment variable to
point to it: export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonrc


# ~/.pythonrc
# enable syntax completion
try:
    import readline
except ImportError:
    print "Module readline not available."
else:
    import rlcompleter
    readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")


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