Lisp was developed largely for Symbolic Computing. See the famous McCarthy paper. Early on it was detected that Lisp execution can be seen as Symbolic Computing itself - see the Lisp interpreter executing symbolic expressions and the famous definition of Lisp evaluation in Lisp itself. Lisp then had the first self-hosted compiler, the first integrated macro system and the first integrated structure editors in the early 60s.
That was Lisp back then. Lisp then early on was used in a bunch of symbolic computing domains: theorem provers, computer algebra, natural language processing, planning, rule-based languages, programming language implementation (languages like ML or Scheme were implemented first in Lisp).
In the Lisp sense Python does not have a REPL, since it does not implement READ, EVAl and PRINT over symbolic data, like Lisp does.
That was Lisp back then. Lisp then early on was used in a bunch of symbolic computing domains: theorem provers, computer algebra, natural language processing, planning, rule-based languages, programming language implementation (languages like ML or Scheme were implemented first in Lisp).
In the Lisp sense Python does not have a REPL, since it does not implement READ, EVAl and PRINT over symbolic data, like Lisp does.