New submission from keeely <s...@sophos.com>:
In the past this was worked around by installing a third-party module: https://github.com/pyreadline/pyreadline For Python 3.10, however this module doesn't work. And pyreadline doesn't seem to be maintained anymore, so it's possible it won't get fixed. https://github.com/pyreadline/pyreadline/issues/73 Consider the following code: import cmd import readline open("history.txt", "w").write("first line\nsecond line\n") readline.clear_history() readline.read_history_file("history.txt") class MyShell(cmd.Cmd): def __init__(self): super().__init__() shell = MyShell() shell.cmdloop() This works fine on MacOs Python, also on Linux and on Windows prior to 3.10 with the readline module added. It won't work going forward. The Windows cmd implementation clearly uses readline or some compatible lib under the hood, so Python should make it available to developers. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 406778 nosy: keeely priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: There's no readline module on Windows Python (cmd.Cmd) type: behavior versions: Python 3.10 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue45870> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
