On Mar 22, 7:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On the other hand, are you willing to make changes to the console? > How big and what? I was thinking of __ to keep the second-to-last > most recent command.
Access to and editing of previous input lines is already provided by the cooked mode of the console (e.g. on Windows, lean on the up-arrow key) or can be obtained by installing the readline package. Perhaps by analogy with _, you mean the *result* of the penultimate *expression*. This functionality would be provided by the Python interactive interpreter but it's not ... do have a look at IPython (http:// ipython.scipy.org/moin/About); I don't use it but I get the impression that if it doesn't already keep a stack or queue of recent results, you could implement it yourself easily. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list