More flexible interactive shell Python 3.13 uses a new interactive shell by default, which has emerged from the PyPy project and offers significantly more convenience than the previous one.

Tell Us How You Python It’s entirely possible I’ve just been using Python wrong all these years and that tinkering with your code in an interactive shell is a poor choose of development processes.

Microsoft updated its Python Extension for Visual Studio Code, building out new data science functionality that was introduced in a previous release.

Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code updated its tooling to improve working with the language's interactive Read-Eval-Print Loop functionality.