recall function definition from shell

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/18/2010 2:55 PM, superpollo wrote:

> yes python does not, but maybe the *shell* does, or so i thought. i just
> wanted to dump the code for the function in a file, after i tested in
> the shell...

On Windows, you can tell the shell (command window) how many lines to 
remember. One can sensibly make this a lot higher on a gigabyte machine 
than back in the 640K days. No idea about other systems.