An often requested feature for bpython is windows compatibility. Because bpython uses curses to draw its interface for the command line this is a difficult feature to satisfy. There are off course curses ports for windows but curses as is is a often a mess and hard to code for (edge cases and all) and having to support multiple (or even just one) port with a slightly different interpretation is a lot of work. Read more…
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Most of the people reading this blog might know I am a contributor to bpython. bpython is an interactive python repl looking to stay as close to the vanilla python repl as possible.
For this project I contribute code, I created, maintain and host their website and write the documentation.
For the 0.9.6 release a lot of bpython has changed and a lot has been added. I am writing this post as a preview to the now upcoming release of bpython 0.9.6. Let’s go over some of the more notable changes one by one. Read more…