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Restored major default completer functionality (cd, import, run)....
Restored major default completer functionality (cd, import, run). These completers had been put in quarantine, I've done a substantial amount of cleanup and restructuring of this code and put it in core.completerlib. There's still a lot to improve there (in particular adding unittests) but at least now it's much more readable and cleanly structured. This gives us back completion for cd, import and run that 0.10 had and which we had lost since the restructuring when the code was quarantined. Also removed the ipy_stock_completers file, the loading of these completers is now done in the init_completer method.
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Origins
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IPython was starting in 2001 by Fernando Perez while he was a graduate student
at the University of Colorado, Boulder. IPython as we know it today grew out
of the following three projects:
* ipython by Fernando Pérez. Fernando began using Python and ipython began as
an outgrowth of his desire for things like Mathematica-style prompts, access
to previous output (again like Mathematica's % syntax) and a flexible
configuration system (something better than :envvar:`PYTHONSTARTUP`).
* IPP by Janko Hauser. Very well organized, great usability. Had
an old help system. IPP was used as the "container" code into
which Fernando added the functionality from ipython and LazyPython.
* LazyPython by Nathan Gray. Simple but very powerful. The quick
syntax (auto parens, auto quotes) and verbose/colored tracebacks
were all taken from here.
Here is how Fernando describes the early history of IPython:
When I found out about IPP and LazyPython I tried to join all three
into a unified system. I thought this could provide a very nice
working environment, both for regular programming and scientific
computing: shell-like features, IDL/Matlab numerics, Mathematica-type
prompt history and great object introspection and help facilities. I
think it worked reasonably well, though it was a lot more work than I
had initially planned.