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