# Install bpython with Homebrew

Fancy interface to the Python interpreter. Version 0.26 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-20.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:bpython
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install bpython
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:bpython
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.26
- **Source summary:** Fancy interface to the Python interpreter
- **Homepage:** <https://bpython-interpreter.org>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/bpython/bpython>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-20T10:57:00Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- bpdb (alias)
- bpython (alias)
- bpython-urwid (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.26
## Project history and usage

bpython is a long-running enhanced interface to the Python interactive interpreter. Its official site emphasizes inline syntax highlighting, readline-like autocomplete, rewind, and pastebin support, positioning it as a friendlier REPL rather than a replacement Python runtime.

### Project history

The GitHub repository describes bpython as a fancy curses interface to the Python interactive interpreter, and the official website lists Linux, BSD, macOS, and partial Windows support. The tag history reaches back to a 0.9.4 release commit in July 2009, while the modern GitHub repository metadata dates the current repository object to 2014.

Over time, bpython tracked Python language releases and terminal UI dependencies. The official changelog records releases focused on Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.13, and 3.14 support, as well as curtsies dependency changes, theme configuration fixes, and declarative build configuration.

### Adoption history

bpython became a staple optional Python REPL in package managers because it adds interactive niceties without asking users to abandon standard Python semantics. The input package facts list Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, Arch, and Ubuntu packaging.

Its adoption overlaps with IPython, ptpython, and standard `python` REPL workflows. bpython's niche is lightweight terminal interaction: autocomplete and display improvements with less notebook or shell-framework machinery.

### How it is used

Users run `bpython` for an enhanced interactive Python session, `bpython-urwid` for the urwid frontend, or `bpdb` for debugger-related use. Configuration lives under `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bpython/config`, and the docs describe editing that config from inside bpython with F3.

The documented feature set focuses on day-to-day interactive work: syntax highlighting, suggestions as you type, rewinding recent input and reevaluating, pastebin submission, themes, and editor integration.

### Why package nerds care

bpython matters because REPL ergonomics are a quiet but important layer of language tooling. It is small enough to package like a CLI utility, but visible enough that Python users often discover it while comparing interpreter frontends.

For package history, bpython is also a durable example of a non-core developer tool following Python's release cadence. Each new Python version creates compatibility work, so the package's changelog doubles as a record of ecosystem maintenance.

### Timeline

- 2009: 0.9.4 release tag commit appears in the official GitHub repository history.
- 2014: Current GitHub repository object was created.
- 2021: Changelog records Python 3.10 support work in the 0.22 era.
- 2024: Changelog records Python 3.13 support in 0.25.
- 2025: 0.26 release tag appears with Python 3.14 support.

### Related projects

- Related Python REPLs include the standard CPython interactive interpreter, IPython, ptpython, and other terminal shells that improve completion, display, and editing.
- The bpython docs and executables also connect it to terminal UI libraries such as curses, urwid, and curtsies.

### Sources

- <https://bpython-interpreter.org>
- <https://docs.bpython-interpreter.org/en/latest>
- <https://docs.bpython-interpreter.org/en/latest/changelog.html>
- <https://docs.bpython-interpreter.org/en/latest/configuration.html>
- <https://github.com/bpython/bpython>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Geiger risk:** yellow / medium
- generalized runtime or code generation signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bpython/config, ~/.config/bpython/config

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/bpython.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/bpython.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation