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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: Dump interpreter history?
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:04:06 -0400
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On 4/12/2011 12:12 PM, Aahz wrote:
> In article<mailman.222.1302543313.9059.python-list@python.org>,
> Terry Reedy<tjreedy@udel.edu>  wrote:

>> Idle will save the contents of the shell window, including opening slash
>> line and prompts.
>
> The problem is that normally you *don't* want the prompts.  I believe
> IPython handles that.

I have already had in mind that IDLE should be able to deal with this issue.
http://bugs.python.org/issue11838

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy