Re: IDLE Restoration

References	<08bb6733-1bc3-4f21-bba1-b97d3f73e010@googlegroups.com> <mailman.254.1431099341.12865.python-list@python.org> <4709717.b925lGYb8P@PointedEars.de>
Date	2015-05-09 02:16 +1000
Subject	Re: IDLE Restoration
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.257.1431101805.12865.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

Show all headers | View raw

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
<PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> Are you hoping to have the IDLE editor restore the fact that you had
>> files X, Y, and Z open, or are you hoping to have the interactive
>> interpreter retain your entire history of commands and their results?
>> The former is reasonably plausible (and may well be possible already -
>> Terry?), but the latter is quite impractical.
>
> Various shells do the latter.  I do not see why that would be impractical,
> on the contrary.

Exactly what do they recall? A textual form of the scrollback? That
wouldn't be too hard. But what about all your working state - assigned
globals, changed state of imported modules (eg random number seed),
etc, etc, etc? An active Python session is a *lot* more than a shell
session scrollback, because "their results" could literally be any
Python objects.

ChrisA

Thread

IDLE Restoration subhabrata.banerji@gmail.com - 2015-05-08 08:26 -0700
  Re: IDLE Restoration Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-09 01:35 +1000
    Re: IDLE Restoration Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-08 18:06 +0200
      Re: IDLE Restoration Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-09 02:16 +1000
        Re: IDLE Restoration Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-08 21:12 +0200
          Re: IDLE Restoration Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-09 08:52 +1000
  Re: IDLE Restoration Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-05-08 20:24 -0400

csiph-web