[Numpy-discussion] Startup .numpyrc file

[Travis Oliphant]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On 7/18/06, Keith Goodman <kwgoodman at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 7/17/06, Travis Oliphant <oliphant.travis at ieee.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> Keith Goodman wrote:
>>>       
>> Does anyone out there save the print defaults across sessions? How do you do it?
>>
>> Does numpy look for any startup files (~/.numpyrc)?
>>     
>
> If you set a PYTHONSTARTUP environment variable then Python will run
> the script it points to at startup of interactive sessions.
>
> But I wonder if maybe some numpy-specific startup script would be
> good.   My current PYTHONSTARTUP is importing numpy, just so I can
> define some numpy shortcuts for my interactive sessions.  That's fine
> if you always use Numpy in your interactive sessions, but if not, then
> it's just dead weight.
>
>   

The standard answer is to use ipython which gives you a wealth of 
startup options.

-Travis