On 23/11/2011 10:29, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:23:19 +0200, Anssi Saari wrote:
goldtech<goldt...@worldpost.com> writes:
Using Windows. Is there a python shell that has a history of typed in
commands?
Is there a shell that doesn't have history then? At least both the
vanilla shell and Idle both have basic history in Windows. IPython for
more fun.
The default interactive interpreter for Python doesn't have persistent
history, so if you exit the interpreter and restart it, your commands are
gone.
Not quite
The interpreter inherits the command shell's history function:
Open a cmd window and then a Python session. Do some stuff.
Ctrl-Z to exit to the surrounding cmd window.
Do some random cmd stuff: dir, cd, etc.
Start a second Python session. up-arrow etc. will bring back
the previous Python session's commands (and not the ones you
entered in the surrounding shell)
Obviously this only applies when an underlying cmd session
persists -- if you simply start Python from Start > Run
twice the command history will not persist between sessions.
TJG
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