Using Jython through IPython: is readline still an issue?

Question

I\'d like to use the Jython interpreter with IPython, so that I could use things like tab completion and perhaps the IPython notebook. The IPython FAQ site steps around whether

Answer 1

Sadly, I don't think it is really possible. It might be because ipython has some explicit dependencies on the underlying OS, which doesn't work so well on Jython because it's dispatching on an os computer. Ipython considers this a bug that will be fixed in the future on their website. Hope this helped!