decent interactive python shell on MS Windows?

[james.kirin39 at gmail.com]

On Oct 1, 3:10 pm, Jason Scheirer <jason.schei... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 1, 9:53 am, james.kiri... at gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi everyone,
>
> > After having used Python on Linux for some time, I now have to do
> > Python coding on Windows. I am big fan of the interactive Python shell
> > to test, eg, regexps.
>
> > Is there an interactive Python shell on Windows that supports:
>
> > - easy copy-pasting to/from an editor? (as opposed to the cumbersome
> > "mark", "copy" and then "paste" sequence that any terminal on Windows
> > seems forced to adopt)
>
> > - readline-like command history (up/down for previous/next command,
> > Ctr-R for searching, etc) ?
>
> > I have tried the python.org shell (difficult copy-pasting),
> > ActiveState's (no readline command history) and iPython (difficult
> > copy-pasting). Do you know of any decent interactive python shell on
> > Windows that comes close to the friendliness of the standard one on
> > Linux?
>
> > Thanks in advance
>
> > James
>
Dear all

Thank you for your excellent replies. With your help all is good now,
and my python coding is as productive as before. :)

~james