It’s difficult to learn anything with a body (such as a loop or a class or a function) with the built in REPL because you can’t edit lines you’ve already written.
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 1, 2019, at 1:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 09:07:14AM -0500, James Lu wrote: >> >> I always use ptipython (ptpython shell over the ipython console) for my >> REPLs. The built-in python repl is not *batteries included* in the sense >> that it already has what you need to explore the language. > > What part of the Python language do you think cannot be used in the > standard Python REPL? > > > > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
