[Python-ideas] REPL features

[Wes Turner]

%edit -p

> Bring up an editor and execute the resulting code.

> -p: this will call the editor with the same data as the previous time it
was used, regardless of how long ago (in your current session) it was.

https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactive/magics.html#magic-edit

Something like this that calls $EDITOR with a temp file would be useful in
the Python REPL as well.

On Wednesday, August 22, 2018, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 09:38:57 -0700
> Chris Barker via Python-ideas
> <python-ideas at python.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 3:07 PM, Jonathan Fine <jfine2358 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > > Maybe this is something Python's REPL should do?
> > >
> > > Good idea.
> > >
> >
> > I can't find (with very little effort) any documentation of this, but I
> > have a vague recollection that the core devs want to keep the built-in
> REPL
> > really simple -- more advanced features are for third party packages like
> > iPython.
> >
> > I tend to agree -- while something like this: "making the built-in repl
> > more friendly t copy-and-paste from examples" seems like a no brainer,
> the
> > fact is that there are a LOT of features that would make it easier for
> > newbies, and in the end, you'd end up with something like iPython.
> >
> > Honestly, Python does "suffer" a bit when in competition with commercial
> > products, in that it is a language (and an implementation of that
> > language), not an entire programming environment. So to use it, you need
> to
> > figure out which Editor or IDE you want to use, what debugger, etc.....
> >
> > And the REPL, while being pretty key to interactive data analysis, is
> not a
> > key feature of programming languages in general, even interpreted ones.
> >
> > So the solution is: use a third party solution for a complete environment
> > suitable for your needs. For instance, for people doing data analysis, I
> > recommend Anaconda -- then you get iPython and JUpyter (and Spyder) out
> of
> > the box -- and away we go.
> >
> > maybe it's worth a note t pyton-dev to confirm my vague impression (or
> some
> > more thorough googling for previous discussions) -- but I wouldn't put
> much
> > effort into ideas for the REPL without confirming that the core dev are
> > open to the concept.
>
> To me it sounds fine to improve the REPL.  Especially, being able to
> paste examples without effort was a sore point for me until I finally
> switched to IPython.  How much complexity and development work that
> would entail I don't know, though :-)
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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