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Why do you think the Python REPL is particular bad? What would you do to improve it? I think it works pretty well, but maybe I'm just used to it.
by mateo411 5y ago
Why do you think the Python REPL is particular bad? What would you do to improve it? I think it works pretty well, but maybe I'm just used to it.
- throwaway894345 5y agoLast I checked you couldn’t await inside a REPL and various other idiosyncrasies. Lots of small paper cuts.
- phyrex 5y agoYou can’t even go into a namespace and change functions there
- randomswede 5y agoCode parsing in the Python REPL is different from that in Python source code files. Not MUCH different, but different. Specifically, if you try to paste a function definition that has blank lines in it, into the REPL, the first blank line will be interpreted as "end of function" and the rest of the function will become incorrectly indented garbage.