python shell that saves history of typed in commands that will persist between reboots

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Wed Nov 23 05:29:28 EST 2011


On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:23:19 +0200, Anssi Saari wrote:

> goldtech <goldtech at worldpost.com> writes:
> 
>> Using Windows. Is there a python shell that has a history of typed in
>> commands?
> 
> Is there a shell that doesn't have history then? At least both the
> vanilla shell and Idle both have basic history in Windows. IPython for
> more fun.

The default interactive interpreter for Python doesn't have persistent 
history, so if you exit the interpreter and restart it, your commands are 
gone.


-- 
Steven



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