[zem]

fewer dependencies than ipython perhaps, but still unacceptable for something that needs to be shipped as part of the language. also I feel that you are unduly pessimistic about its chances and that the PEP is right about this one - being written in python rather than C will get it a ton of contributions from the community if anything is found lacking. particularly since you won't necessarily need to know a ton about python internals to just contribute to the repl