Code.py InteractiveConsole and the new repl

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The new python interactive shell in 3.13 is great. However, both flask shell and Django’s python manage.py shell commands use code.py’s InteractiveConsole which is described as:

Closely emulate the behavior of the interactive Python interpreter.

So I would have expected this to be the new ‘fancy’ interactive shell on python 3.13. But it’s not. Am I wrong to have expected InteractiveConsole to be using the new fancy console when available? If not, for people that want to integrate a ‘fancy’ console like Flask or Django, how should that be handled? If InteractiveConsole is only expected to be the ‘old’ shell I think at least this should be part of the documentation.

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It’s already fixed, see Python 3.13.0 REPL loads local files unexpectedly, causing conflicts and security issues · Issue #125140 · python/cpython (github.com)

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Why would that fix the issue? That has to do with handling of sys.path, I can’t really see how that would change the behavior of InteractiveConsole

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Oh, I’m sorry, I miss read your description.

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Yeah, I think that it’s just a documentation issue.

You should use _pyrepl if you want to have the same new REPL, but it’s a private module. So I’m not sure if it’s a good idea to rely on its API now.

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Indeed is not. Right now the priority is making this stable and for that we may (and we are) need to change a lot of APIs and restructure this all the time so we are not ready to expose anything. Maybe this is something we can do in the future.

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Would you like to file a documentation PR to reflect this? Otherwise me or @ambv can do it