On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 03:56:55PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 3:44 PM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 03:52:31AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > > > Also a bit old-school (it took me many years to learn the value of > > > syntax highlighting), and an educator, and I've seen students start > > > out with Jupyter. As an alternative to the vanilla REPL, I think it's > > > awesome > > [...] > > > But for discoverability, incl tab completion? It's great > > > > *scratches head* > > Yeah, you kinda edited me to having a quite different meaning there. > That wasn't what I said, thank you.
Did I? If so, it was completely unintentional, sorry. I've re-read your original, and I don't see the "quite different meaning". I read your code as saying that Jupyter is "great" (better than the vanilla REPL) because it has tab completion. I don't know what other forms of "discoverability" you might be referring to. Nor do I know if Jupyter does tab completion differently (better?) than the built-in REPL. > 1) I don't trust it on arbitrary (mostly Windows) systems, so when I'm > recommending to other people, I can't be confident of it. Trust it in what way? That it might eat your hard drive or expose your personal details to the internet? > 2) Until recently, tab completion conflicted with tab indentation, > making the default REPL very annoying. True enough, but that's long fixed. > 3) In many terminals, tab completion of an entire module's contents is > impractical. Being presented with a hundred options or more is rather intimidating, but rlcompleter.py prompts you first: py> os. Display all 343 possibilities? (y or n) allowing you to back out, and then simulates paging the output. What does Jupyter do if there are 300+ options? -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/P5V57WNRIZ35W5TVKXWY7WHPNKVUKZR2/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
