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A better Python REPL

25 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 11 stories, 14 comments · first 2015-01-26 · latest 2025-07-23

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  1. …kind of Pharo/Smalltalk live coding experience. [0] https://pyrasite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [1] https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython
    comment by skeledrew · 2025-07-23 · in Checking Out CPython 3.14's remote debugging protocol
  2. …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... ... actually, it looks like someone is working on adding `await` support to…
    comment by karolinepauls · 2025-03-23 · in Show HN: FastOpenAPI – automated docs for many Python frameworks
  3. ptpython: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython
    comment by vismit2000 · 2024-06-02 · in Ask HN: Most Interactive REPL for Python?
  4. A similar tool that I love: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython
    comment by jpetrucc · 2023-12-27 · in Discover Bpython: A Python REPL with IDE-Like Features – Real Python
  5. …line breaks in pasted code, vim (or emacs) bindings and syntax highlighting, and much more. [0] https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython
    comment by teamspirit · 2023-08-05 · in Throw away your first draft of your code
  6. If you like using the REPL, for Python I recommend you try https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython
    comment by GeorgeTirebiter · 2023-05-07 · in Why Lisp?
  7. …[5] https://zeitzono.org/ [6] https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit [7] https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython
    comment by njt · 2020-09-09 · in Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?
  8. You may like [ptipython]( https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython/blob/master/READM... python-support) for vim bindings in an ipython(-ish) environment.
    comment by sd2k · 2019-02-03 · in Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017)
  9. …( https://github.com/dbcli/mycli ), pgcli ( https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli ) * ptpython/ptipython ( https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython ) - Youtube-dl: http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ - fzf a fuzzy finder for the console:…
    comment by artwr · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  10. …solid library backing these: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit See also: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/ptpython , https://github.com/jonathanslenders/pymux , https://github.com/jonathanslenders/pyvim
    comment by git-pull · 2017-12-23 · in DBCLI – Modern Suite of Database CLIs
  11. …Lots of community-driven CLI tools with superb autocompletion: - ptpython: http://github.com/jonathanslenders/ptpython/ - pgcli: http://pgcli.com/ + mycli: http://mycli.net/ - complete shells: xonsh ( http://xon.sh/ ) + ergonomica (
    comment by git-pull · 2017-05-23 · in Ask HN: Good examples of interactive command-line user experience?
  12. ptpython is also nice: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/ptpython
    comment by jhasse · 2017-04-06 · in Unix Is Not an Acceptable Unix (2015)
  13. …to use control mode (-C) and filing smaller patches to expand control mode's events in tmux(1). [1] https://github.com/jonathanslenders/ptpython
    comment by git-pull · 2016-01-03 · in Pymux: a tmux clone in pure Python
  14. if you are a vim person then I can recommend ptpython: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/ptpython https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jonathanslenders/ptpython/...
    comment by nicwest · 2015-09-04 · in Ask HN: What's your favorite CLI or ncurses program?