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

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

Am 25.11.2011 04:49, schrieb alex23:
> On Nov 24, 6:51 pm, Tim Golden<m... at timgolden.me.uk>  wrote:
>> The Ctrl-Z thing is what *exits* the interpreter on Windows
>> (a la Ctrl-D on Linux).
>
> With ActivePython, Ctrl-D works as well, which is a godsend as I'm
> constantly working across Windows&  linux.
>
>> In short - on Windows, within one cmd shell you can open and exit
>> the interpreter as many times as you like and the Python command
>> history will be retained via the cmd shell's history mechanism,
>> and kept distinct from the history of other things you may type
>> into the cmd shell.
>
> And again, I'm definitely not seeing this. Inside the one cmd shell,
> each instance of Python has no recollection of the history of the
> last.

I'm seeing history browsing in Python on MS Windows XP here and it also 
works for every other commandline-based program. Well, it seems with the 
exception of the ActivePython distribution of Python. That one 
intentionally changes the MS Windows defaults like Control-Z behaviour 
and at the same time, maybe even as a side effect, it breaks the shell's 
history browsing.

You don't happen to have an installation of the vanilla Python 
distribution to test, do you? This is getting me curious...

Uli