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# Swanky Python: Interactive development for Python
Scott Zimmermann (he/him) - <mailto:sczi@disroot.org>

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Project repository: <https://codeberg.org/sczi/swanky-python/>

I'm working on a development environment for
Python based on Emacs' SLIME mode for Common Lisp.
In this talk I'll demonstrate some of its
features, like an object inspector, interactive
backtrace buffer, thread and async task viewer,
and function tracer. I'll also discuss its
implementation and limitations, along with future
directions for the project.

This project aims to bring a Lisp and Smalltalk
inspired style of development to Python. You get a
faster feedback loop by developing inside a
running python process without needing to restart
your program and lose state on changes, allowing
you to immediately inspect the results of code you
write. We can also provide more advanced tooling
based on runtime introspection, as we have more
information available at runtime than is available
to traditional tools based on static analysis of
source code, mainly we have the actual values of
variables rather than just their types.

About the speaker:

Python is eating the world. Emacs is eating my computing environment. I'm
attempting to get them working together.



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