[Tutor] Saving session in IDLE

[Gregor Lingl]

alan.gauld@bt.com schrieb:

>One of my tutor 'students' has asked me an interesting 
>question.
>
>How do you Save Session in IDLE?
>
>You can save your current shell window as a text file
>and edit it to remove '>>> ' plus output lines etc. 
>But that's messy.
>
>It would indeed be convenient to save an entire 
>interactive session such that you could resume later 
>where you left off.
>  
>
Ideed could be useful!

>Two approaches seem feasible:
>1) The good way - save the internal state - builtins dir 
>   and all imports etc but this sounds like it's a lot easier
>   to say/write than to do!
>
>2) The dirty approach - ...  There's 
>a snag if the previous session had faults - and 
>which interactive session doesn't - you stop at the 
>faulty line. yuck...
>
This could possibly be caught by a try: ... except: ... clause.
Nonetheless I think, you couldn't do it without a Python-parser. How
would you otherwise manage to process the following fancy input (+ output):

 >>> print "      ",(1,

       3,
       7); print "       Hello"
       (1, 3, 7)
       Hello
 >>>

>
>Looks like we're back to option 1....
>
>Or does anyone know of a way of doing this already?
>  
>
Equally interested
Gregor