Interactive Python in Shell

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See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/246779/930899

I may have found a way to do it.

Create a file .pythonrc

# ~/.pythonrc
# enable syntax completion
try:
    import readline
except ImportError:
    print("Module readline not available.")
else:
    import rlcompleter
    readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
then in your .bashrc file, add

export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonrc
That seems to work.