This project exposes the interactive Python interpreter over a TCP socket. It does so in a manner that allows multiple connections at the same time, each connection runs in a separate thread and has its own scope. It is a pure Python implementation relying on the code and socketserver modules. Tested on Pythonista 3, running Python 3.4.

I created this to facilitate development for Pythonista, a Python interpreter that runs on iOS. At first I had a script that allowed updating other scripts, but I missed the functionality to quickly test something in an interactive interpreter. Getting the interpreter with code.interact() from a script in Pythonista works but that requires typing on the device itself, obviously not the preffered solution.

This socketserverREPL exposes the interpreter on a TCP socket, this allows connecting to it with netcat and thus typing into the interactive Python interpreter of Pythonista through a normal keyboard. Additionally it allows uploading scripts and executing them while observing the output on a normal screen.

Although developed with this use-case in mind, it works for any scenario where you have access to Python but can't use standard tools to access it. Be careful to which ip address you bind the server to; expose the REPL only on trusted networks.

This is a simple helper script to facilitate file upload, download and execution. It also provides a convenience wrapper around the TCP socket to provide command history.

MIT License, see LICENSE.

Copyright (c) 2017 Ivor Wanders