学习python的利器-ipython

  ipython是python交互式shell, 它支持代码自动补全，支持高亮，支持shell命令;

我个人觉得ipython最大的好处就是代码自动补全(同时它会列出模块里的类、函数、变量，这样对于学习某一个模块太有帮助了，下面的例子显示怎么使用ipython 的帮助功能：

在ubuntu下首先安装ipython

sudo apt-get install ipython

启动ipython：

观察email 的MIMEText方法使用帮助：

In [1]: import email

In [2]: print email.
email.Charset              email._LOWERNAMES          email.__reduce_ex__
email.Encoders             email._MIMENAMES           email.__repr__
email.Errors               email.__all__              email.__setattr__
email.FeedParser           email.__builtins__         email.__sizeof__
email.Generator            email.__class__            email.__str__
email.Header               email.__delattr__          email.__subclasshook__
email.Iterators            email.__dict__             email.__version__
email.LazyImporter         email.__doc__              email._name
email.MIMEAudio            email.__file__             email.base64MIME
email.MIMEBase             email.__format__           email.email
email.MIMEImage            email.__getattribute__     email.importer
email.MIMEMessage          email.__hash__             email.message_from_file
email.MIMEMultipart        email.__init__             email.message_from_string
email.MIMENonMultipart     email.__name__             email.mime
email.MIMEText             email.__new__              email.quopriMIME
email.Message              email.__package__          email.sys
email.Parser               email.__path__             
email.Utils                email.__reduce__           

In [2]: print email.mime.text.
email.mime.text.MIMENonMultipart  email.mime.text.__file__          email.mime.text.__reduce__
email.mime.text.MIMEText          email.mime.text.__format__        email.mime.text.__reduce_ex__
email.mime.text.__all__           email.mime.text.__getattribute__  email.mime.text.__repr__
email.mime.text.__builtins__      email.mime.text.__hash__          email.mime.text.__setattr__
email.mime.text.__class__         email.mime.text.__init__          email.mime.text.__sizeof__
email.mime.text.__delattr__       email.mime.text.__name__          email.mime.text.__str__
email.mime.text.__dict__          email.mime.text.__new__           email.mime.text.__subclasshook__
email.mime.text.__doc__           email.mime.text.__package__       email.mime.text.encode_7or8bit

In [3]: help email.mime.text.MIMEText
------> help(email.mime.text.MIMEText)

class MIMEText(email.mime.nonmultipart.MIMENonMultipart)
 |  Class for generating text/* type MIME documents.
 |  
 |  Method resolution order:
 |      MIMEText
 |      email.mime.nonmultipart.MIMENonMultipart
 |      email.mime.base.MIMEBase
 |      email.message.Message
 |  
 |  Methods defined here:
 |  
 |  __init__(self, _text, _subtype='plain', _charset='us-ascii')
 |      Create a text/* type MIME document.
 |      
 |      _text is the string for this message object.
 |      
 |      _subtype is the MIME sub content type, defaulting to "plain".
 |      
 |      _charset is the character set parameter added to the Content-Type
 |      header.  This defaults to "us-ascii".  Note that as a side-effect, the
 |      Content-Transfer-Encoding header will also be set.
 |  
 |  ----------------------------------------------------------------------

关于ipython 的介绍：

http://baike.baidu.com/view/5922975.htm

http://www.cnblogs.com/yuxc/archive/2011/03/24/2029786.html