bpython VS ptpython

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.

Because not everyone wants to be a part of the asyncio trend.

Asyncio in Python is a poor feature that splits the language's ecosystem into 2 mutually-incompatible worlds, something Python only gets away with because it's too big to fail.

Meanwhile we've had Gevent for decades now. It gives us async that you can forget you have. Because rather than making code async, it makes the VM async.

Gevent could have been merged into CPython, but they chose explicit "structured concurrency" and the rest is history. History of sometimes moving forward and sometimes straying from the path and getting lost.

And lost Python's asyncio is. PDB, which lots of other debuggers base on, is still broken (cannot use await). The ecosystem? IPython uses asyncio internally so it cannot easily be embedded in a working async program. The only embeddable REPL I was able to find is this: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython/blob/master/examp...... well, it looks like someone is working on it now, years after asyncio's first release.

Overall, lots of churn to get something as good as Gevent, which we had in Python 2.7, or even before.

If a similar amount of effort was spent on first-class support for code hot-reloading and live program inspection, we would get a massive boost of productivity. But somehow even otherwise bright people choose to reimplement working solutions into something objectively worse, meanwhile our development/debugging loop still emulates loading punchcards into mainframes.

As alluded to in Poetry2Nix Development Flake with Matplotlib GTK Support, I’m currently in the process of getting my “new” python workflow up to speed. My second problem, after dependency and environment management, was that fancy REPLs like ipython or ptpython don’t jazz well with the standard comint based inferior python repl that comes with python-mode. One can basically only run ipython with the --simple-prompt flag which removes features like syntax-highlighting and auto-completion. Especially annoying is, that only the tkinter backend for matplotlib works in this mode.

Ptpython reads from a configuration file where we can specify custom keybindings and the REPL colorscheme. The default configuration file can be copied from prompt-toolkit/ptpython/blob/master/examples/ptpython_config/config.py.

If you like using the REPL, for Python I recommend you try https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython

REPL??? Do you have a very-easy-to-use way of running and testing your code? From vim-slime to nvim sniprun to autocommands with the built in terminal, to an external repl like ptpython (for python obviously). iron.nvim and conjure are two other neovim repl plugins. There are many ways of running the code that you're working on, and having something that makes this really easy for you is pretty essential. (sometimes I use inotifytools on linux to literally just run the script every time I save it.)

I use ptpython for my python repl https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython. I find it very convenient because it has a vim mode, and many vim similarities.

A library like ptpython should be what you're looking for, however this probably isn't an option for an exam setting.

create a repl to the standard that ptpython sets for python (both croissant and ilua leave a lot to be desired)