"Reinhold Birkenfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George Sakkis wrote: > >> "bruno modulix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> George Sakkis wrote: > >> > I'd love to see IPython replace the standard interpreter. > >> I dont. > > > > Care to say why ? > > For an easy, quick interactive interpreter, it's way to overloaded > with functions and too slow in startup.
Too slow ? It doesn't take more than a second or two to startup in a two years old 1.8Ghz Athlon and an older 900Mhz sparcv9 I usually work on. How slow is it at platforms you have experience with ? > However, having ipython in the Python distribution is worth a thought. > > Reinhold George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
