Creating interactive command-line Python app?

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On Saturday, December 13, 2014 6:50:50 AM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> rfreundlich21 at colonial.net wrote:
> 
> > um, what if I want to USE a command line for python WITHOUT downloading or
> > installing it????
> 
> Who are you talking to? What is the context?
> 
> Like all software, you can't use Python apps without all their dependencies
> being installed. If you use the Linux operating system, it will have Python
> already installed. Otherwise, you will have to install it.
> 
> If you can't install it, or don't want to, you can't use Python.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steven

He replied to a post from nearly two years ago, but deleted all context.

And even that post was a bump reviving a post from 2005.

See the whole thread at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.python/sAiJ8bvBBKI