> The default and de facto standard should be something that doesn’t get put on a pedestal but stays out of the way.
This to me is unachievable. Perfection is impossible. On the the way there if the community and developers coalesced around a single tool then maybe we can start heading down the road to perfectionism.
When I first learned Python, typing python and seeing >>> and having it evaluate what I typed as if it appeared in a file was a good experience.
Now that I use python a lot, ipython is more out of the way to me than the built-in python repl is, because it lets me focus on what I'm working on, than limitations of a tool.
