Where does win32 python command prompt history happen?

drs drs at ecp.cc
Wed May 14 15:36:13 EDT 2003


in win9x days one had to enably doskey in the auotexec.bat file to get this.
afaik, at least since win2k, this has been part of the command prompt.  I
doubt it is in the kernel, but it is part of windows.

-d


"Gary Bishop" <gb at cs.unc.edu> wrote in message
news:3ec27298_2 at news.unc.edu...
> When I run python in a command window (dos box) on WindowsXP, I get
> simple command history. For example I can press the up-arrow key to
> get previous commands typed to the prompt.
>
> My question is, where does this happen? I've looked at the code and I
> can't see it. I've even built a debug build and stepped through it,
> and I still can't see it. As far as I can tell it must happen down in
> the Windows KERNEL somewhere. Can that be? Is this stuff documented
> anywhere?
>
> Thanks
> gb
>






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