I suspect you don't have readline installed. It's a pita on both Mac and Windows
to get it working to use iPython properly. I know the steps to take on Windows
but there are multiple variations of how to get readline set up on OS X and I
don't know which one is the best one for your usecase.
--
--Leo
Richard Fuhr wrote:
In yesterday evening's nice presentations on numpy, the speakers
mentioned the use of iPython, to provide an improved interactive Python
shell experience, so I decided to give it a try.
One feature that it claims to have, but which I could not get to work,
is automatic indentation. I have fiddled with it a bit, but am still
perplexed. For instance, here is a sample session
in which I set autoindent, but it does not seem to take effect. Does
anyone have any suggestions? I am using a Mac, running Snow Leopard,
and just launching ipython from a Terminal session.
Richard-Fuhrs-iMac:ipythonlearn richardfuhr$ ipython
Leopard libedit detected.
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
IPython 0.10.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
? -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help -> Python's own help system.
object? -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more.
In [1]: autoindent
Automatic indentation is: OFF
In [2]: autoindent
Automatic indentation is: ON
In [3]: for i in range(10):
...: print i # I expected autoindent to take effect
------------------------------------------------------------
IndentationError: expected an indented block (<ipython console>, line 2)
In [4]: quit()
Do you really want to exit ([y]/n)? y
Richard-Fuhrs-iMac:ipythonlearn richardfuhr$
