On 11/19/10 3:11 PM, 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.
That's weird, it works fine for me:
In [137]: autoindent
Automatic indentation is: ON
In [138]: for i in something:
.....: yup_auto_indent_worked
.....:
.....:
In [139]: autoindent
Automatic indentation is: OFF
In [140]: for i in something:
.....: hmm_no_indent
I'm running:
OS-X 10.6
Python 2.6.6 (python.org build)
IPython 0.10
OS-X terminal.app
very similar to your setup --maybe a question for the ipython list?
Richard-Fuhrs-iMac:ipythonlearn richardfuhr$ ipython
Leopard libedit detected.
ahh -- here is one difference: I didn't get "Leopard libedit detected"
are you running the Apple-supplied python? It may have a readline
work-alike that is not quite compatible -- I think my version is using
the pyReadline that comes with ipython.
That may well be it, I just found this:
http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/InstallationOSXLeopard/LeopardPythonReadline
I wonder if you can disable libedit, and have it use pyReadline instead?
You might try the python.org python install -- it's a better bet for
getting binary packages anyway, and Apple has never updated a python
(why you're still in 2.6.1)
-Chris
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