huge help for interactive python

[David S.]

If you are using ipython on Windows then you will
have made sure you have Gary Bishop's readline 
library as instructed in the ipython install 
directions found at:
http://ipython.scipy.org/

Even if you use the standard commandline tool, 
installing readline makes the basic command line a 
lot easier to use.  (For some reason, I much
prefer it to IDLE or any of the other GUI-wrapped
interpreters.)

I could not find a list of the keyboard commands 
that readline supports, so I generated:

http://fsinnovations.net/share/keymap.pdf

NOTES:
You can checkout the script that generates this at:
http://fsinnovations.net/share/readlinekeymap.py
This uses Ken Seehof's Python Cookbook recipe found at:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/81982
I am sure it can be improved, but it was easy.  By the 
way, it generates LaTeK.

To install readline, get it at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/uncpythontools.
You will also need the ctypes library by 
Thomas Heller, found at:
http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes