bug#57885: [PATCH] Add a command to restart the Python shell

[Augusto Stoffel]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2022 at 23:32, Richard Stallman wrote:

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> In Shell mode, if you terminate the shell, M-x shell will restart it.
> That is easy to remember and does not require adding any commands to Emacs.
>
> Can the same solution work here?
>
> Does it perhaps work already?

This already works, but I think the new command is useful for a few
different reasons.

The most important is that you can operate the Python shell entirely
from other buffers using `python-shell-send-region' and related commands
(I use the Python shell to see the outputs, but rarely type input
directly into it).  So the procedure you suggest actually involves a
number of steps that become annoying if you need to repeat them often.