Episode 10: The Interactive REPL

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Oof, no episode in April, huh? Yeah, we're getting close to Python 3.13 beta 1. PyCon US is also coming up real soon. Let's use this opportunity then to talk about a feature we're teaming up on: a better interactive interpreter!

## Outline

(00:00:00)  INTRO
(00:01:53)  PART 1: History of Terminals
(00:03:20)  /dev/tty
(00:04:51)  The first cool word
(00:05:45)  Chrząszcz
(00:06:20)  Control code characters in ASCII
(00:11:54)  PART 2: Python REPL Today
(00:12:34)  There is no REPL
(00:15:28)  So what is there instead?
(00:19:13)  readline
(00:25:38)  Source in the REPL
(00:31:13)  Implementing a REPL from scratch? Prepare to support arg: 5
(00:36:09)  PART 3: PR OF THE WEEK
(00:37:09)  Introducing: Complaining Pablo
(00:38:23)  Tests are always green if you skip them
(00:39:57)  Getting dirty with escape sequences
(00:41:28)  Typing finds bugs
(00:42:29)  Shiny new features of the new REPL
(00:45:55)  Contributing back to PyPy
(00:48:10)  We still have two weeks, right?
(00:49:59)  Is Python synthwave enough?
(00:51:57)  Do we have a bug?
(00:55:31)  What's lurking in pydoc?
(00:59:38)  PART 4: WHAT'S HAPPENING IN CPYTHON?
(01:02:39)  PEP 744: The JIT
(01:06:05)  Incremental GC is now actually in
(01:08:21)  Tier 2 interpreter updates
(01:10:29)  Python supported on iOS with PEP 730
(01:13:11)  Better error messages for name shadowing
(01:15:17)  Queue.shutdown()
(01:17:14)  ctypes adopts heap types
(01:18:26)  Free-threading updates
(01:20:14)  Dataclass creation is faster
(01:20:44)  OUTRO

Episode 10: The Interactive REPL

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