[Python-ideas] external editor commands in python REPL

[Yury Selivanov]

On 2013-05-13, at 12:55 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2013-05-13, at 12:39 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> 
> > Have you seen IPython?
> 
> Of course.  Tried it multiple times, however, can't get used to it.
> 
> It would have been useful if you had mentioned that in your first post. Work claiming to break new ground should always carefully compare with existing solutions.

Right.

>  
> The idea is to make the standard REPL a bit more convenient, because
> for most users it's probably already has enough features.  But writing
> multiline code in current REPL is a bit harder than it should be.
> 
> Maybe. Then again, there are already other solutions, and if you say you don't like those, well, others do like them, and plenty of others are also perfectly happy with the standard REPL.
> 
> How long have you worked on your shell.py? Do you think that by the time Python 3.4 comes out you won't have added a host of other additional conveniences? Or that maybe you've lost interest, and donated a module to the standard library that no-one cares to maintain?

~ 1-2 hours ;)  It's a quick hack, obviously.

As for the features, conveniences etc -- If the python-dev crowd likes the
idea I'd be glad to write a PEP to distill the functionality and/or provide 
a reference implementation.  And regarding the maintenance of donated code -- 
it wouldn't be my first contribution to python ;)

Thank you,
Yury