On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 03:12:42PM -0500, Terry Reedy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/1/2019 1:50 PM, James Lu wrote:
> > It???s difficult to learn anything with a body (such as a loop or a class
> > or a function) with the built in REPL because you can???t edit lines
> > you???ve already written.
>
> However, I don't see what this has to do with running system console
> commands in a Python shell.
Python REPL is missing the following batteries:
* Persistent history;
* Syntax highlighting;
* Clear separation (using, for example, different colors)
between input, output and errors;
* Paging of very long output/errors.
> --
> Terry Jan Reedy
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