When starting a django application using python manage.py shell
, I get an InteractiveConsole shell - I can use tab completion, etc.
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 15 2008, 22:57:26)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
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(InteractiveConsole)
When just starting a python interpreter using python
, it doesn't offer tab completion.
Can someone tell me what django is doing to give me an interactive console, or what I need to do to start an interactive console without a django app?
I may have found a way to do it.
Create a file .pythonrc
# ~/.pythonrc
# enable syntax completion
try:
import readline
except ImportError:
print("Module readline not available.")
else:
import rlcompleter
readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
then in your .bashrc file, add
export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonrc
That seems to work.