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December 30 2009

Running bpython on windows (with GTK)

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…

December 28 2009

A preview to bpython 0.9.6

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…