On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <pointede...@web.de> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: > >> Are you hoping to have the IDLE editor restore the fact that you had >> files X, Y, and Z open, or are you hoping to have the interactive >> interpreter retain your entire history of commands and their results? >> The former is reasonably plausible (and may well be possible already - >> Terry?), but the latter is quite impractical. > > Various shells do the latter. I do not see why that would be impractical, > on the contrary.
Exactly what do they recall? A textual form of the scrollback? That wouldn't be too hard. But what about all your working state - assigned globals, changed state of imported modules (eg random number seed), etc, etc, etc? An active Python session is a *lot* more than a shell session scrollback, because "their results" could literally be any Python objects. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
