On 2019-08-02 22:37, Steven D'Aprano 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*
Do people forget that the vanilla Python REPL has come with tab
completion for nearly 20 years, and on by default for something like
seven years?
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d5ef330bac50
https://docs.python.org/release/2.0/lib/module-rlcompleter.html
(At least on Linux/POSIX systems. I don't know if it works on Windows
or Macs.)
It doesn't work on Windows.
--
Brendan Barnwell
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no
path, and leave a trail."
--author unknown
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