[Python-ideas] A better interactive prompt

[Chris Barker]

But that's something of a solved problem. IPython offers a rich
> interactive environment, for people who find the limitations of the
> standard interactive prompt frustrating. Would it be worth the
> standard Python documentation promoting IPython for that role?


+1 iPython really makes it easier to do exploratory code -- I have my
students install it day one of an intro to python class.

However, maybe ironically, iPython is still a bit ugly for editing
multi-line constructs -- maybe it will  get better.

The Jupyter (formally iPython) notebook is the way to go for that, but it
has its other downsides...

[2] My apologies to anyone whose proposal was *not* based around
> interactive use cases.


folks DO like compact code, regardless of context :-)

-CHB


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