Ptpython Alternatives

ptpython reviews and mentions

• Show HN: FastOpenAPI – automated docs for many Python frameworks
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Mar 2025

  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.

• Prompt-toolkit/ptpython: A better Python REPL
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2024
• Modern Python REPL in Emacs using VTerm
  5 projects | dev.to | 11 May 2024

  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.

• Color Django shell by development environment
  2 projects | dev.to | 15 May 2023

  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.

• Why Lisp?
  17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 May 2023

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

• Is it best just to use the terminal for python?
  1 project | /r/Fedora | 21 Mar 2023
• Tools for productivity
  31 projects | /r/neovim | 7 Mar 2023

  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.)

• Is there a vim mode for zsh ?
  3 projects | /r/zsh | 21 Feb 2023

  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.

• Is there a way to make the Python IDLE auto-close brackets and quotations?
  1 project | /r/learnpython | 26 Jan 2023

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

• Where do I go after learning lua?
  5 projects | /r/lua | 25 Jan 2023

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

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