shell
2 Oct 2008
I lost quite a bit of time trying to get the PyAMF shell up and running on the <head> web site this week.
I started out by downloading the source for the shell app via a link on a post on the PyAMF blog. Unfortunately, the link was to the wrong version of the shell app (I've since informed the PyAMF team and Nick's fixed the link.)
iPython is an awesome extended Python shell that gives you goodies like tab completion for instances, history tracing (so you can easily copy interactive sessions as doctests), etc. And, if you install it, your Django project on Google App Engine will automatically start using it instead of the regular python shell when you use
./manage.py shell.
To install iPython on OS X Tiger (yes, my Leopard discs are still safely in their box since I downgraded and I don't see any reason to bring them back out yet), I followed the following steps: