Pythonwin interactive window editing?

[Paul Prescod]

scott wrote:
> 
> Just installed Pythonwin (ActivePython build 202) on NT4. Seems very
> nice so far except...

I'm curious: if you just installed, why didn't you install build 203,
which is newer?

> Previously (an hour ago) I used the history feature of IDLE 0.6 that
> came with BeOpen Python 2.0 to recall previous commands (Alt-p etc). Is
> something like this available in the Pythonwin interactive window? 

Use your up and down arrow keys and then hit "enter" when you get to the
line you want to reuse.

>...
> P.S.
> On a related note, I can't seem to use IDLE anymore. I tried to start
> c:\Python20\Tools\IDLE\idle.pyw
> I got an error message (unable to locate DLL tk83.dll). Sure enough,
> this isn't on my system.
> Is IDLE supposed to work using Pythonwin?

The solution is described here:

http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePython/Extensions/

But it is geared towards ActivePython build 203!

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