[Python-ideas] History stepping in interactive session?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 09:13:58PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Please do file a bug about this. Python's interface to readline is
> pretty old, I wouldn't be surprised if more functionality could be
> added. 

The time machine strikes again:

http://bugs.python.org/issue8492



-- 
Steven