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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:29:51 +0000
From: Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk>
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On 25/11/2011 10:37, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> Am 25.11.2011 04:49, schrieb alex23:
>> On Nov 24, 6:51 pm, Tim Golden<m...@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.
>
> I'm seeing history browsing in Python on MS Windows XP here and it also
> works for every other commandline-based program. Well, it seems with the
> exception of the ActivePython distribution of Python. That one
> intentionally changes the MS Windows defaults like Control-Z behaviour
> and at the same time, maybe even as a side effect, it breaks the shell's
> history browsing.

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