On Sat, Feb 2, 2019, 8:15 AM Oleg Broytman <[email protected] wrote:

>   For the question "Does Python REPL need more batteries?" is your
> answer "No, just point people to IDLE"?
>    If it is - well, I disagree. I implemented a lot of enhancements for
> REPL myself, and I don't like and avoid GUI programs
>

IPython and BPython and Xonsh are projects that exist. I doubt the Python
REPL will ever be as full featured as those, and I don't really think it
should hope to. Similarly for IDLE or PyCharm or Spyder or Jupyter for
folks who like GUIs.

Apart from the maintenance work required for CPython (and for other Python
implementations), the feature cadence is likely to be faster on those
projects than is the Python core. That said, I definitely appreciate some
small improvements in the REPL sooner the years, probably ones you have
added, Oleg. So it's a balancing act, I recognize.
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