How to I restart an interactive session?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

markscottwright wrote:

> I'm trying to cobble together an IDLE equivalent using pyshell and VIM
> (My idea is just to pipe exec file commands from VIM to pyshell via a
> socket or something).  The one feature that IDLE has that I would
> really like but can't seem to duplicate is the "Restart Shell" command.
>  Delving through the IDLE code, it looks like IDLE kills and restarts
> its InteractiveInterpreter-derived class to do this.  Is this really
> necessary?  If I just take __main__.__dict__ and strip out everything
> since a start point, haven't I restored the interpreter to a virgin
> state?

You can't unload modules, or at least reload is not always working properly.
So - you'd gotta go the road IDLE has gone before I assume.
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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch