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I usually just have one terminal window open with the Python REPL, and another open with a text editor. Works fine for me, although admittedly it was slightly more convenient back when `reload` was a builtin. (That's maybe the one thing I miss from 2.x, if I had to pick one. Sure, it doesn't honestly really make sense as a builtin; but it could have been added to `site` or something.)

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Are you referring to the builtin `reload` found at `importlib.reload`? [0]

I use it all the time in debugging. Works great in conjunction with `breakpoint`s for quick iterations.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#importlib.r...

I'm aware it's still available. In Python discourse, "builtin" generally refers to names from the builtin namespace (which is immutable and further out than the global namespace), which are available without an import (even a standard library one), like `int`.

ptpython is great in this usage

I'll have to check it out! :)

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