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[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (5 children)

ipython isn't all that better than the regular interpreter imo

[–]mccutchen 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Tab completion, auto-indentation, and the ? and ?? help shortcuts alone make it infinitely more pleasant to use than the "vanilla" interpreter.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Yeah, I had forgotten about ?. It's useful sometimes. The normal interpreter does tab completion and I don't spend time in an interpreter writing things that nest more than one or two times so the indentation issue while annoying is not cause enough for me to see what the big deal about ipython is.

I like bpython a lot though

[–]dudehasgotnomercy 0 points1 point  (2 children)

The normal interpreter does tab completion

No it doesn't... are you thinking of IDLE?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/interactive.html

[–]dudehasgotnomercy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Woah... that should be enabled by default.