On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > The escape key erasing input back to the beginning of the line is Command > Prompt or cmd.exe behavior.
cmd.exe is just a shell that uses the console (if the standard handles are console handles). The console window is hosted by conhost.exe. It processes the input buffer for command-line editing, and it maintains command history and a set of aliases (matching at the start of a line) for each attached executable (e.g. cmd.exe, powershell.exe, chcp.com, mode.com, doskey.exe, python.exe, etc). Every Windows process can attach to a single console window via AllocConsole or AttachConsole, and detach via FreeConsole. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
