[wxPython-users] [SOT] Shell Differences?

[Chris Mellon]

On 1/25/07, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Josiah Carlson wrote:
>
> > PyCrust and PyShell (as shipped with wxPython) are more or less the same
> > thing, except PyCrust has the object browser (which can be nice).
> > Otherwise they run everything you type in the same process as the GUI that
> > is handling input/output, etc.
>
> Josiah,
>
>    That's what I've observed, too. Guess that I'm trying to find out the
> advantage of this compared to ...
>
> > I personally prefer opening up a console and running python directly (even
> > though I include a Python console in my editor).
>
> > I have no experience with ipython.
>
>    Ipython is -- as far as I can tell -- an enhanced console version of
> python.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>

Because I prefer the advantages of the drop down auto completion and
the pretty gui with easy & rich cut and paste, I use pycrust pretty
much all the time. On occasion I need to debug or otherwise mess with
something that breaks pycrust and I'll use the regular python shell
for that.

For my purposes, ipython is a strict superset of the regular python
shell, but honestly since I use the command line shell so rarely I
just forget about ipython when I do use it.