bpython VS jupyter_console

bpython over built-in Python interpreter

Yeah, also it's worth to mention bpython

I use bpython, its a pretty cool python REPL, try it out

Yeah, mostly I lack time to catch up with Jonathan Slenders works, and have stronger backward compatibility requirements. b=But ptpython and pyipython are both great.

I should also look into Rich and Textual

https://bpython-interpreter.org/ is also another alternative python shell, and of course https://xon.sh

It's a nicer repl for python.

Python comes with IDLE as /usr/bin/idle but it doesn't have a corresponding .desktop file that would let it appear in the application menu. Otherwise, /usr/bin/python has an interactive mode and bpython is a wrapper around that interactive mode that has like syntax highlighting, indenting, undo, etc.

So, in this article, we will discuss bpython-django a fork from bpython that handles Django in a better way, currently it handles Models and can be extended as desired.

Someone posted bpython which I'm pretty ecstatic about but always good to know options.

Sounds like you'd be interested in jupyter-console, which lets you do something like ilua for any language that has a Jupyter kernel. Well, in theory; the one language kernel I use that would really benefit from it, F# (which has a pretty shit command-line repl) doesn't work correctly. It's flawless with the OCaml kernel, but there isn't much point to running that one on the terminal considering utop is insanely good already.

You likely want to use something like https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter_console, or ipykernel directly to have a persistent python process. One issue is that shells are text based, so you have to do a lot of serialisation/deserialisation.

But honestly at that point I would just look into https://xon.sh/ that blends Python and Shell together. IPython and Xonsh devs are friends, so if you need anything from one into the other it's likely doable.