[Python-ideas] History stepping in interactive session?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Steven D'Aprano writes:

 > I thought so too, but apparently the behaviour being talked about is a 
 > bash extension to readline. Adding it to Python would be a feature 
 > request, not a bug fix.

In that case, I think it's unfortunately that Python doesn't provide a
way to warn about unimplemented stuff in .inputrc.  Both on my Mac and
on my Gentoo system, C-o simply does nothing.