saving interpreter source?

Dave Kuhlman dkuhlman at rexx.com
Wed Apr 21 19:35:21 EDT 2004


Dave Kuhlman wrote:

> Peter Hansen wrote:
> 
>> Garett wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello, I would like to be able to save source typed into the
>>> interpreter to a file. Kind of like marshal, but I would like to
>>> have the file contain the source so I can edit it later.
>>> Something like inspect.getsource() but for source typed into the
>>> interpreter, not imported from a module. Is this possible? Any
>>> ideas are greatly appreciated. -Garett
>> 
>> Last time I used it, Chris Gonnerman's readline replacement kept
>> a history by default:
>> 
>> http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/readline.html
> 
> Also, take a look at the following.  It tells you how to configure
> your interactive sessions so that both (1) interactive history
> will be saved to a file and (2) that history will be available in
> subsequent interactive sessions.

Oops.  Forgot the link.  Here it is:

    http://docs.python.org/lib/readline-example.html

Dave

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