linux console command line history

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:38 PM, kaklis at gmail.com <kaklis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi to all,
> I 'm writing a linux console app with sockets. It's basically a client
> app that fires commands in a server.
> For example:
> $log user 55
> $sessions list
> $server list etc.
> What i want is, after entering some commands, to press the up arrow
> key and see the previous commands that i have executed.
> Any hints? Any examples?
>
> Antonis
> --

Look at the readline module.
http://docs.python.org/library/readline.html