Hello,
On WindowsXP with Python 2.5.1 (from the python-2.5.1.msi): when I'm
at the python prompt, up-arrow scrolls through the command history. If
I type group of characters first, up-arrow shows only the previous
commands that start with that group of characters.
On CentOS 5 with Python 2.5.4 (t
Hello,
On WindowsXP with Python 2.5.1 (from the python-2.5.1.msi): when I'm
at the python prompt, up-arrow scrolls through the command history. If
I type group of characters first, up-arrow shows only the previous
commands that start with that group of characters.
On CentOS 5 with Python 2.5.4 (t
Oops, pardon the double-post.
Doesn't python invoke its own shell? On windows I start by running c:
\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe. But then I run 'python' and get the ">>>"
prompt. The same thing happens from a bash or tcsh shell on Linux,
right? Are you saying that OS-specific shell capabilities are
On Apr 30, 3:25 pm, MRAB wrote:
> You're running Python in a console/shell window. Python calls the
> console for a line of input and the call doesn't return until the
> Enter/carriage return key is pressed. All the fancy history stuff is a
> feature of the console, not Python.
Understood, thank
