[issue20886] Disabling logging to ~/.python_history is not simple enough

[Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis]

Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis added the comment:

I would suggest to support PYTHONHISTFILE variable (similar to HISTFILE and LESSHISTFILE) and to not replace file pointed by this variable.

This shows that file is being currently replaced:
# cp /dev/null .python_history
# LC_ALL="C" stat -c "%F" .python_history
character special file
# python3.4 -q
>>> ^D
# LC_ALL="C" stat -c "%F" .python_history
regular empty file

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nosy: +Arfrever

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