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New Features¶

A better interactive interpreter

Python now uses a new interactive shell by default, based on code from the PyPy project. When the
user starts the REPL from an interactive terminal, the following new features are now supported:

 Multiline editing with history preservation.

 Direct support for REPL-specific commands like help, exit, and quit, without the need to call
them as functions.

 Prompts and tracebacks with color enabled by default.

 Interactive help browsing using F1 with a separate command history.

 History browsing using F2 that skips output as well as the >>> and … prompts.

 “Paste mode” with F3 that makes pasting larger blocks of code easier (press F3 again to
return to the regular prompt).

To disable the new interactive shell, set the PYTHON_BASIC_REPL environment variable. For more on
interactive mode, see Interactive Mode.

(Contributed by Pablo Galindo Salgado, Łukasz Langa, and Lysandros Nikolaou in gh-111201 based on
code from the PyPy project. Windows support contributed by Dino Viehland and Anthony Shaw.)

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