[Idle-dev] auto-loading at shell start and shell restart

[Mark Summerfield]

Hi,

I love using IDLE, both for experimenting with python and for
calculations.

But every time I start IDLE for calculations I have to type in:

    from __future__ import division
    from math import *

which would be bearable if I only had to do it once a day... but when I
experiment I often have my code in a separate python file, so I do:

    import mycode

then do my experiments, then, when I've hit problems or want to move
forward, I do Shell|Restart, and use ^P a few times to get the import
line back. Which is fine, except that if I've done a lot between imports
and I want to switch between testing mycode.py and some calculations I
end up having to type

    from __future__ import division
    from math import *

time after time.

I wish there was some standard way (i.e. in Options) of having a list of
python commands to issue whenever the shell is started or restarted.

Regards.

-- 
Mark Summerfield