Windows, IDLE, __doc_, other

[W. eWatson]

>> It the IDLE shell, it's not possible to retrieve lines entered earlier 
>> without copying them. Is there an edit facility?
> 
> I suggest you download a programmers' editor (like Notepad++ or PsPad) 
> for programming work and use the basic Python interpreter for 
> interactive work. The basic interpreter lives in a standard Window 
> console window where you can use up and down arrow keys, F8 completion, 
> F7 for list of earlier commands, etc (as documented by the doskey 
> command in the Windows command interpreter). Just forget IDLE in 
> windows: while Windows console windows are something from the middle 
> ages, IDLE seems to stem from a period before that! <g>
> 
> 
> Cheers & hth.,
> 
> - Alf
> 
> PS: Shameless plug: take a look at <url: 
> http://tinyurl.com/programmingbookP3>, it's for Windows.

I just downloaded the three files. It looks useful. I take it you are 
the author?