Creating interactive command-line Python app?

[Tim Chase]

(original post from planetthoughtful didn't seem to arrive here, so 
replying to Bob's reply)

> Newbie to Python, and I'm wondering if it's possible to create a
> Python console app that prompts for further input on the command
> line when run (in Windows XP, if that's important)?

While Bob's suggestion of "cliff" sounds interesting, Python also 
offers the "cmd" module[1] in the standard library which does most 
of what I've needed in the past.  If you've got the readline library 
available, it also supports autocompletion and command-line history 
which is a nice bonus.

-tkc

[1]
http://docs.python.org/2/library/cmd.html # py2.x
http://docs.python.org/3/library/cmd.html # py3.x
Docs should be about the same