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

alex23 wuwei23 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 24 22:49:46 EST 2011


On Nov 24, 6:51 pm, Tim Golden <m... at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> The
> Ctrl-Z thing is what *exits* the interpreter on Windows (a la Ctrl-D
> on Linux).

With ActivePython, Ctrl-D works as well, which is a godsend as I'm
constantly working across Windows & linux.

> In short - on Windows, within one cmd shell you can open and exit
> the interpreter as many times as you like and the Python command
> history will be retained via the cmd shell's history mechanism,
> and kept distinct from the history of other things you may type
> into the cmd shell.

And again, I'm definitely not seeing this. Inside the one cmd shell,
each instance of Python has no recollection of the history of the last.



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