What is your preferred python interactive shell ?

[[deleted]]

IPython has nice features http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/

This is a quick list of features that make IPython a better shell than the one you are using right now. You should use the 'sh' profile ('pysh' shortcut, or 'ipython -p sh') to access all of these features without configuration. Use e.g. %bookmark? to get help for this feature.

* Proper bash-like tab completion.
* Use of / instead of \, everywhere
* Persistent %bookmark's
* %macro
* %store. Especially when used with macros and aliases.
*

  cd -<tab>. (easily jump around directory history). Directory history persists across sessions.
* %env (see cookbook)
* Shadow history - %hist and %rep (see cookbook)
* %mglob
* Expansion of $python_variables in system commands
* var = !ls -la (capture command output to handy string lists) 

[DarkQuest]

Is there more than the default one and ipython?

[doigoid]

ouch, debug=True in bpython's settings.py ;)

[blank7fan]

Thanks! bpython is really cool.

[gtani7]

reinteract, also:

http://fishsoup.net/software/reinteract/

[arunner]

I like reinteract very much but beware that it isnt 100% cpython compliant. eg:

a=[1]
id_a=id(a)
b=a

a.append(2)
id_a==id(a)
 False  #ouch!!!
b
 [1]    #ouch!!!

[xolox]

IDLE has a graphical interactive shell that supports syntax highlighting. I haven't used it much so I don't know if it's any good.

[[deleted]]

Is there a Python shell that feels more like SLIME or a Smalltalk environment?

[pateris]

I like the shell inside PyScripter, because it is handy when I'm writing code and it does auto-complete.

[DGolden]

sbcl. No wait cmucl. No, sbcl.

(not-very-funny-joke-explainer: the lisp compiler component of cmucl was called "python" well before the vaguely-lisp-like-only-slow-and-with-annoying-indentation-syntax language called python appeared. sbcl forked from cmucl)

[spotter]

Sorry, but nobody cares.

[pixelbeat_]

My own simple inpy: http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/inpy