Better console for Windows?

[Nicolas Fleury]

Brett Hoerner wrote:
> This is a pretty basic, mostly un-python-related question, although I'm
> asking because of Python.
> 
> Is there a different shell I can use (other than cmd.com) to run Python
> in, where I can full-screen the window (if I pleased), etc?  As it is,
> things that would run far off the right have to be word wrapped after
> very few characters.

I don't know if you absolutely want a shell, but if what you want is a 
Python interactive prompt, I find PyShell coming with wxPython really 
nice.  It has autocompletion and support copy-paste with/without the 
preceding >>>.

Regards,
Nicolas