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jonathan_s | 11 years ago | on: Python REPL with syntax highlighting, autocomplete and multiline editing

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The idea is indeed that ``ptpython`` could become the terminal front-end for IPython.

The only thing on which ``prompt_toolkit`` is focussing, is reading input from stdin and returning it to the application. IPython is a very powerful execution environment, but the current command line interface which uses GNU readline lacks decent multiline editing and syntax highlighting.

There is a proof of concept of what the integration could look like: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit/bl... But in the end it would be nice to have this as a part of IPython itself.

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