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