Can you open a Python shell in Atom editor?

Question

You can open multiple tabs in the Atom editor, and have a multiple column layout as well. However, I am not being able to find out how to open a Python shell inside Atom so that I can load a Python script in the Python interactive shell.

Does anyone know the steps to achieve this?

Answer 1

The script package is likely what you want, it allows you to test your code by running part or all of it at a time:

You can install it by opening the settings view with Ctrl-, switching to the Install panel and searching for script. You can also install from the command line by running:

apm install script

Technically what you are asking for is closer to the Terminal Plus package, as opens up a terminal pane from which you can load the python interactive environment by entering python.