mypython is an interactive Python shell built around the prompt-toolkit library. It provides an alternative to Python’s standard interpreter, with a particular emphasis on efficient editing, readable output and convenient access to development tools.
mypython is particularly useful for experimenting with Python expressions, investigating objects, testing small sections of code and diagnosing errors without switching to a full development environment.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Multiline input with automatic indentation and intelligent execution of complete statements.
- Distinctive emoji-numbered prompts that help identify successive commands and their results.
- Syntax highlighting using Pygments, with automatic error highlighting provided by Pyflakes.
- Context-sensitive tab completion using Jedi and Python’s built-in introspection facilities.
- Searchable command history with shortcuts for retrieving and combining previous input.
- Emacs-style keyboard shortcuts for navigating, editing and manipulating text.
- Bracketed paste support, including automatic removal of interpreter prompts from pasted code.
- Automatic highlighting of matching and mismatching parentheses.
- Access previous results through numbered variables and the familiar underscore shortcuts.
- Interactive documentation and source inspection using the ? and ?? suffixes.
- Built-in timing commands for measuring the execution speed of Python statements.
- Integration with profiling tools including pyinstrument, line_profiler and memory_profiler.
- PuDB integration for interactive debugging of Python code.
- SymPy integration with automatic pretty-printing of symbolic mathematical expressions.
- Improved tracebacks with source-line information for interactively defined functions.
- Separate command histories for individual terminal sessions.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux and macOS.
Website: github.com/asmeurer/mypython
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Developer: Aaron Meurer
License: MIT License
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