command line editing

[Skip Montanaro]

    Curtis> Would it be possible to include a history ability into the
    Curtis> Python interpretor?  Something simmilar to the BASH shell, or
    Curtis> doskey in DOS.  Up-Arrow prints the previous command.  I think
    Curtis> this would be a great new feature.

If you use a Unix-like operating system and have GNU readline handy, this is
already available (also see the rlcompleter module).  Later on (probably
after 1.6), one thought is to have the interactive command loop coded in
Python so that you can more easily add this sort of stuff.  In the meantime,
take a look at the source to the code module, especially the
InteractiveConsole class.  You may be able to mangle it to do command
history.

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