[Twisted-Python] Twisted and ipython

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

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:

  * 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.

Also, we really should get rid of twisted.manhole, because these days 
manhole is supposed to refer to the stuff in twisted.conch.  I'm not 
sure if you found the latter, but from the warning you got about 
twisted.protocols.telnet it seems like you may have only found the 
former.

Jean-Paul