On: PEP 762 – REPL-acing the default REPL

[zahlman]

My guess is that it's not really designed to be fully severed from Jupyter. It certainly shouldn't require Matplotlib to run a console REPL.

[0cf8612b2e1e → zahlman]

I am pretty sure matplotlib is not required. That is just a convenience library that improves the notebook experience if matplotlib is loaded. So you no longer need to run the magic function ‘%matplotlib inline’