Positron is Posit's new, free IDE for data science. Users can work with Python and R. It explicitly does not replace RStudio.

Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code updated its tooling to improve working with the language's interactive Read-Eval-Print Loop functionality.

More flexible interactive shell Python 3.13 uses a new interactive shell by default, which has emerged from the PyPy project and offers significantly more convenience than the previous one.