Doesn't work in the Python interpreter

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Is there some inherent reason Interpy won't work in the interpreter?

Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul 13 2015, 12:05:58) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.53)] on darwin
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>>> # coding: interpy
... 
>>> a = 123
>>> print "#{a}"
#{a}