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PEP 762 – REPL-acing the default REPL

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103 points Numerlor | 2 comments | 14 Oct 24 19:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.414s | source
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wodenokoto ◴[15 Oct 24 09:09 UTC] No.41846571[source]▶
I feel like there’s a missing discussion as to why they aren’t going with Ipython
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12_throw_away ◴[15 Oct 24 18:00 UTC] No.41851214[source]▶
I'm sure it's for exactly the same reason that I'm often hesitant to install it - huge dependencies:

  $ pip show ipython
  [...]
  Requires: appnope, backcall, decorator, jedi, matplotlib-inline, pexpect, pickleshare, prompt-toolkit, pygments, stack-data, traitlets
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1. zahlman ◴[15 Oct 24 22:15 UTC] No.41853667[source]▶
My guess is that it's not really designed to be fully severed from Jupyter. It certainly shouldn't require Matplotlib to run a console REPL.
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2. 0cf8612b2e1e ◴[15 Oct 24 23:16 UTC] No.41854100[source]▶
I am pretty sure matplotlib is not required. That is just a convenience library that improves the notebook experience if matplotlib is loaded. So you no longer need to run the magic function ‘%matplotlib inline’