Interaktiv körning (Unix)

Starta Python och evaluera uttryck rakt av:
    linuxburk% python
    Python 2.2a1 (#10, Aug 11 2001, 14:02:07) 
    [GCC egcs-2.91.66 [...] ] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" [...]
    >>> l=[1,2,3]
    >>> l.reverse()
    >>> l*2
    [3, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1]
    >>> quit
    'Use Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit.'
    >>>