automatically import modules upon interpreter invocation

Daniel Fetchinson fetchinson at googlemail.com
Wed Jun 25 04:44:16 EDT 2008


>> Hi folks, this seems like a very basic thing but I couldn't find a
>> solution.
>> I always do the following after starting the python interpreter (on
>> linux):
>>
>> import rlcompleter
>> import readline
>> readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
>>
>> Is there a way of making python execute the above whenever it starts
>> up so that I don't have to type it all the time?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel
>>
> environment variable PYTHONSTARTUP can be set to a python file that runs
> when you start the python interpreter


Great, thanks!

Cheers,
Daniel
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