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