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

[Tim Golden]

"Gary Bishop" <gb at cs.unc.edu> wrote in message news:<3fd7ca1c_3 at news.unc.edu>...
> ?????? ?. <mk at net.mail.penguinista> wrote:
> > # ~/.pythonrc
> > # enable syntax completion
> > try:
> >     import readline
> > except ImportError:
> >     print "Module readline not available."
> > else:
> >     import rlcompleter
> >     readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
> 
> This will work on win32 as well if you download ctypes and then my
> python implementation of gnu readline from
> 
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/uncpythontools/readline-1.1.zip?download

Brilliant! Thank you very much indeed. 

I would add a warning for those Windows users who aren't also Linux
users: by default you'll need to use Ctrl-D to exit the interpreter
rather than Ctrl-Z. (I imagine this could be changed; I've given the
source no more than a cursory glance).

TJG