On 05/10/12 12:26, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Andy Buckley writes:
A couple of weeks ago I posted a question on superuser.com
Maybe it's a bug. (See below.) Have you checked the tracker? Have you posted to python-list? That's a better place than here to get that kind of information.
As you might have noticed,
The people on this list (and on python-dev) probably don't pay much attention to questions on superuser.com, unless they're the kind of people who hang out on python-list.
Hi Stephen -- thanks for the feedback. I know StackExchange sites are not affiliated to the Python project! By "as you might have noticed" I didn't mean to imply that you spend your time scouring all Q&A sites for anything Python-related, but just that if you followed the link I posted you'd probably notice the zero response :)
From searching around before that SuperUser post, and some more afterwards, I couldn't find any reference at all to history-stepping as an available Python interpreter feature, so I was trying to suggest that as a new feature -- not a bug report. Sorry if python-ideas is only for language/stdlib features rather than the standard infrastructure.
However, I hadn't remembered when I first posted that I was already making use of a PYTHONSTARTUP script with the readline module to enable some history functionality -- I'd set that up years ago and ported it between systems. So my premise that readline *should* work was not accurate: sorry for the noise. Notably the operate-and-get-next readline function (thanks for the bind -p suggestion) bound to Ctrl-o does not work with Python readline... but I will follow up on that potential bug elsewhere. So one last question, in case it is an acceptable python-ideas topic: how about adding readline-like support by default in the interpreter? But maybe there is a reason for new users to have a more bare-bones, no-history introduction to the language, unless they start with ipython? Thanks again, Andy