Looking for a good interactive shell

[craig]

I'm a ipython guy, since I just found it a few weeks ago.  I LOVE it!  
I have all but replaced zsh with the pysh version of ipython.  Anyways, 
just use VIM as your external editor :P

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=850

That is the python autocomplete stuff for vim.   Obviously you could 
use any editor you like, and right now I'm using textmate, a beautiful 
little OSX editor(not free however).

Anyways, ipython, with vim and pydiction gives you mutliline 
editing(it's still an external editor)....

You can actually do multiline editing in ipython, with the up and down 
arrows.  I do quite a bit right there..

Otherwise I don't know of anything else that exists, I just learned 
about pycrust today, but after looking I think I'm too addicted to pysh 
to even try it.

P.S. I'm not trying to start an external editor war, most good external 
editors will do command completion for python I imagine.

Hope this helps,
Craig

On 2004-11-21 06:11:27 -0700, "Tomas" <1cdq3arii001 at sneakemail.com> said:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm looking for a replacement for the standard interactive python 
> shell. So far I've tried IPython and PyCrust. I liked both, but I'm not 
> 100% happy with any of them. My main complaint about IPython is its 
> missing support for multiline editing. To do multiline editing, it has 
> to start an external editor, but then I lose all the nice features like 
> autocompletion.
> 
> PyCrust supports multiline editing, but the autocompletion is not as 
> good as in IPython. It also lacks many of IPython's advanced features, 
> like pdb-integration, magic commands and custom macros.
> 
> Does anyone know of any other interactive python shells with good code 
> completion and multiline editing?
> 
> -Tomas