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That is really neat - I just installed it. I don't usually use Python (strongly preferring Ruby) but I want to experiment with Python + AppEngine (I am tired of the hassles with JRuby + AppEngine, and using Java + AppEngine is too easy :-)

I installed PyCharm a few hours ago and Dreampie will be good for light weight experiments.

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While I also prefer ruby, iPython and some of these other shells are dramatically better than irb, even with some of the nice irb add-ons.

Here's to hoping ruby will catch up.

Apart from 'irb/completion' I use 'wirble' [1] for colour highlighting of the output in Ruby/IRB [1]. I had to modify it to get it to work with Ruby 1.9 though [2]. I don't think anybody has done syntax highlighting for input.

[1] http://pablotron.org/?cid=28

[2] http://www.wedesoft.demon.co.uk/downloads/wirble.rb