[Twisted-Python] Twisted and ipython

Alessandro Dentella sandro at e-den.it
Sun Jan 16 18:12:37 EST 2011


thanks Jean-Paul for the hints,

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:50:05AM -0000, exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
> On 13 Jan, 11:43 pm, sandro at e-den.it wrote:
> >thanks,
> >
> >short abstact: manhole is very good, thanks. But I'd need to add 
> >readline to
> >make it usable and I'd need tab-completion too.
> 
> If by "add readline" you mean handle input using the stdlib readline 
> module, you can't really do this (or, I'm sure you can, but it would 
> involve a ton of coding).  If you only mean "have some commonly useful 
> line editing features" then you have at least a couple options:

Well, in fact I intended mainly up/down arrows *and* tab-completion, like
ipython have. 

>   * invective includes a fully unit-tested line input widget (for the 
> insults widget library).  This really belongs somewhere other than 
> invective, it'd be nice if someone pushed it back into Twisted. 
> However, you can find invective at 
> svn://svn.twistedmatrix.com/svn/Twisted/sandbox/exarkun/invective/trunk 
> until that happens.
> 
>   * urwid supports Twisted and has lots of fancy things, including an 
> input editing widget.



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