This gives you a shell where you can type Python commands directly and have them run instantly. As soon as you press return, whatever statement you used will run.

Just launching Anaconda’s python executable doesn’t do this. Anaconda provides some shortcuts to launching shell sessions with the base environment activated.

Written in Rust, the PyApp utility wraps up Python programs into self-contained click-to-run executables. It might be the ...

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.