Dump interpreter history?

[Dan Mahoney]

Yeah, sorry about that. The square brackets were supposed to indicate that
filename is an optional argument. If not supplied, defaults to .history.

Dan Mahoney
Catdude at gmail.com

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On Mar 25, 2011 6:57 PM, "Tim Chase" <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:

On 03/25/2011 04:40 PM, Daniel Mahoney wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:03:55 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
>
>  Hey, all.  A co-worker asked me a question, and I've got no idea how (or
>> if) it can be done.  Bottom line: he'd like to save off the text from an
>> interpreter session, his thinking being that you've already tried to get
>> what you want, and now you just need to gussy it up in an editor.
>>
>
> import readline
> readline.write_history_file([filename])
>

Just to clarify (I thought Daniel's answer was so easy it must have
misinterpreted the OP's request), that's a single string as a filename, not
a list containing a filename.  I tried

 filename = 'output.txt'
 import readline
 readline.write_history_file([filename])

and got a traceback about the expected parameter type.  For clarity, it
should have been

 readline.write_history_file(filename)

or

 readline.write_history_file('output.txt')

But otherwise, Daniel's given a dead-easy solution.

-tkc
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