@CodeLongAndPros Hi, thanks for your help, it worked :)

However, I can still escape from the shell by typing exit().

Is there anyway that I can force the users to stay in the python shell? (i.e. prohibit escaping by exit())

@jha929 try changing python3 to while true; do; python3;done

@CodeLongAndPros Ah, that's lit yeh it worked, thanks!

I have another question, if I run import modi in the python shell, it complains that it doesn't have its dependencies installed.

Is there a way that I can install the dependencies (i.e. running python3 setup.py install) implicitly? I don't want my users to type that command explicitly.

FYI, I have configured my .replit file as below:

# https://docs.repl.it/repls/dot-replit
run="while true; do python; done"
language="python3"
onBoot="python3 setup.py install"

[packager]
afterInstall="echo installation is finished!"
ignoredPaths=[".git", ".github", "doc", "tests"]
ignoredPackages=["python-can"]

I thought the onBoot option would work as I expected but had no luck there. Maybe I'm not rebooting the shell properly? I just refreshed the page (I'm not sure what triggers the REPL.it to reboot).

I would appreciate it if you'd help on this.

@jha929 I mean you can create a bash repl and add this:

pip install foo
pip install bar==1.0.1
while true;
do;
python3;
done;

@CodeLongAndPros Yep, now I defined my run to be something like this run="python setup.py install; while true; do python; done".

Yes, it works but it installs the dependencies every time I click the run button. And this way is quite explicit. I want to preinstall the dependencies so that users don't have to wait for them to be installed. Will there be a way to do that? In fact, my first question was more like how to make my repl's default language to be python (I want to set my repl to be python repl).

I appreciate your help :)

@jha929 You could always just make a python repl?

@CodeLongAndPros I'm importing my python project from github into repl. REPL seems to automatically decide what language type suits to a given project. For my project, bash is assigned as a default project language. Is there a way to change the project language?

@jha929 Make a python repl and press Ctrl-Shift-s to get a shell. Run git clone {url} .

@CodeLongAndPros Ah thanks that worked.

Although I had to git clone the repo then move all its content under the root directory.

@jha929 Yeah the command should have been cp -r {{repodir}}/* .