InteractiveConsole History on Linux

[Chris Spencer]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Chris> Yeah, "import readline" works just fine. My problem isn't hard to
>     Chris> replicate. Can anyone else on Linux get command history to work
>     Chris> with the following code? Note, it should be saved and run from a
>     Chris> file.
> 
> Command history across sessions or just command recall from the current
> session?  On my Mac your script works just fine for me (no import readline
> as Robert Kern indicated in his reply) to do command recall from the the
> current session, but more is needed if you expect to get command history
> across sessions.

I was just looking for recall in the current session, although the 
stdlib docs have an example of recall across sessions ( 
http://docs.python.org/lib/readline-example.html ).

On Linux, it seems you have to explicitly import readline in order to 
get command history, although my application was also redirecting 
sys.stdout, which was also causing problems.