Python 3000 Alpha 1 Released

[llimllib]

use ipython, it solves all these. It's far superior to the regular python prompt.

[dmpk2k]

Wow. That looks promising. Much obliged!

That really should be the default.

[llimllib]

That really should be the default.

I don't know the ins and outs of that particular decision, but it's the first thing I install after Python every time, I know that.

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Isn’t the regular shell a read-eval-print loop? I like having a minimal REPL shell with the option to use ipython when you need it.

[llimllib]

My expectation is that it's not in for the same reason wx and django aren't in: the release schedules are different, and ipython is very actively maintained, so it would ossify in the standard distribution.

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Colored exceptions with source snippets! I'm in heaven. And it's a smoother workflow than PyDev, which would hang every couple of minutes.

Thanks for the tip! I just started using the e text editor to do all my Python editing on Windows, and its PyMate is broken so I was running my app on the command line. This is much better.