On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, October 27, 2014 8:40:48 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Ben Finney wrote: >> > Right. There is line-by-line history, and editing enabled with the >> > "readline" plug-in. (This is an advantage of using a programmer-friendly >> > operating system, which MS Windows sadly is not.) >> >> You can get block-by-block history by using Idle. I find that fairly >> convenient for manipulating class/function definitions. >> >> ChrisA > > Umm... Nice! > A bit inconsistent in that the '...' does not appear. > But thats good; makes copy|cut-pasting from interpreter to file > a mostly trivial operation.
It's inconsistent only because the default sys.ps2 is those dots, which aren't necessary in Idle. You could make it consistent by simply changing sys.ps2. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list