Syntax coloring in Python interpreter

[Tim Golden]

Neil Cerutti wrote:
> On 2007-11-01, Chris Mellon <arkanes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Nov 1, 2007 3:01 PM, Neil Cerutti <horpner at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> On 2007-11-01, Lee Capps <lcapps at cteresource.org> wrote:
>>>> On Nov 1, 2007, at 1:45 PM, braver wrote:
>>>>> Greetings -- as a long time user of both Python and Ruby
>>>>> interpreters, I got used to the latter's syntax-coloring gem,
>>>>> wirble, which colorizes Ruby syntax on the fly.  Is there
>>>>> anything similar for Python?
>>>>>
>>>> I believe IPython can do this:
>>>>
>>>> http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/
>>> IPython's syntax coloring doesn't work with Windows 2000 and
>>> up, since (last I checked) it relies on a readline.py file,
>>> which relies on ANSI.SYS, which is not supported by the
>>> Windows console.
>> If you scroll down about half a page in the above link you'll
>> find a link to a readline implementation for Windows.
> 
> That pyreadline.py appears to be an improvement on the Windows
> support when I last looked  (6 months or so ago). Thanks for the
> heads up.
> 

And it's worth looking at ipykit[1] which is a standalone
bundle of ipython py2exe-ed for Windows users.

TJG

[1] http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/IpyKit