remote Python console

repl-client.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

from xmlrpclib import ServerProxy

client = ServerProxy('http://localhost:8877')

while True:
    try:
        line = raw_input(">>> ")
        if line:
            status, result = client.execute(line + "\n")
            if status == 0:
                while True:
                    cont = raw_input("... ")
                    if not cont:
                        break
                    line += "\n" + cont
                status, result = client.execute(line + "\n")
            if result:
                print result,
    except (KeyboardInterrupt, EOFError):
        print
        break

repl-server.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys, traceback
from StringIO import StringIO
from SimpleXMLRPCServer import SimpleXMLRPCServer

g = {}

def execute(s):
    try:
        code = compile(s, "<repl>", "single")
    except SyntaxError:
        traceback.print_exc()
        return 0, ""
    try:
        sys.stdout = sys.stderr = StringIO()
        eval(code, g)
        return 1, sys.stdout.getvalue()
    except:
        t, v, tb = sys.exc_info()
        traceback.print_exception(t, v, tb.tb_next)
        return 2, sys.stdout.getvalue()
    finally:
        sys.stdout = sys.__stdout__
        sys.stderr = sys.__stderr__

server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(('localhost', 8877), logRequests=False)
server.register_function(execute)
try:
    server.serve_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    pass