Python Prompt on Linux
 

Python prompt on linux console doesn't have any features like syntax coloring and auto indentation. Does anyone know how to get those features to work on linux consoles? I use vim and eclipse for python scripting, but python prompt is little bit inconvenient without those features. I would appreciate any response regarding this issue.

As far as I know, it's not built into the program, the same way you don't get colours if you run the command-line Python prompt in Windows.

One sometimes wonders how the industry progressed so rapidly when the choices were holes in cardboard or black on white or white on black (or some other combinations involving reds, oranges, and greens), without a variation in a carload. I 'spect it was in knowing how to code.

There's ipython, but I don't think that has syntax highlighting (there is auto-indentation, though).

PyCrust runs on all major platforms and it supports limited code completion, and has auto indentation. It does have all the bells and whistles of ipython though. You should fine PyCrust in one the wxPython packages in your distribution.