python shell that saves history of typed in commands that will persist between reboots

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> Except that, intriguingly, I'm also using an ActiveState distro
> and it neither adds Ctrl-D nor prevents history. But I'm
> fairly sure that pyreadline does both of those things.
> 
> TJG

In python I can spawn a process to run python byte code that will produce a file with results. Easy to avoid a lot import A,B,C,D...... on the top level.