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