Syntax coloring in Python interpreter

[Neil Cerutti]

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.

-- 
Neil Cerutti