Modules for inclusion in standard library?

[George Sakkis]

"Reinhold Birkenfeld" <reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam at wolke7.net> wrote:

> George Sakkis wrote:
> >> "bruno modulix" <onurb at xiludom.gro> wrote:
> >
> >> George Sakkis wrote:
> >> > I'd love to see IPython replace the standard interpreter.
> >> I dont.
> >
> > Care to say why ?
>
> For an easy, quick interactive interpreter, it's way to overloaded
> with functions and too slow in startup.

Too slow ? It doesn't take more than a second or two to startup in a
two years old 1.8Ghz Athlon and an older 900Mhz sparcv9 I usually work
on. How slow is it at platforms you have experience with ?

> However, having ipython in the Python distribution is worth a thought.
> 
> Reinhold

George