[New-bugs-announce] [issue38791] readline history file is hard-coded

[Jonathan Conder]

New submission from Jonathan Conder <jono.conder at gmail.com>:

Other tools such as bash and less allow their history file to be customised with an environment variable. Will add a patch for this in a bit.

This could also be customised using PYTHONSTARTUP, but then the user has to duplicate a bunch of code which is already part of the site module.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 356573
nosy: jconder
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: readline history file is hard-coded
versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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