[Python-Dev] oh, and any interest in my readline history stuff?

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Skip Montanaro writes:
 > instead when you retrieve it from the history.  I find this particularly
 > annoying and would much rather have the line-by-line recall that older
 > versions of bash (and now Python) support.

  This is something where you'd really want to be able to select which
you prefer and toggle back and forth.  I usually want a whole block,
but sometimes I want to construct a new block from pieces of previous
blocks.

 > I've never used IDLE.  What does it do to facilitate command recall and
 > editing that's much different than Python or bash?  Would it pop up the
 > above Python for loop into a text editor widget and execute it when the
 > widget is closed?

  No; it retrieves the whole multi-line block and inserts is at the
prompt, allowing you to edit any part of it before type <Return> to
execute.  It's better than the bash behavior because it doesn't
replace the actual newlines with semicolon separators (which wouldn't
be sufficient for arbitrary Python code anyway).


  -Fred

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