Pythonwin interactive window editing?

[scott]

Paul Prescod wrote:

> scott wrote:
> >
> > Just installed Pythonwin (ActivePython build 202) on NT4. Seems very
> > nice so far except...
>
> I'm curious: if you just installed, why didn't you install build 203,
> which is newer?

I downloaded it April 9th, but chickened out when the installer told me to
remove the previous version. I use Solaris and NT, so I was worried about
losing IDLE etc. on NT4.
Anyway, I finally decided to give it a go today, but used the 4 day old
download.

> > Previously (an hour ago) I used the history feature of IDLE 0.6 that
> > came with BeOpen Python 2.0 to recall previous commands (Alt-p etc). Is
> > something like this available in the Pythonwin interactive window?
>
> Use your up and down arrow keys and then hit "enter" when you get to the
> line you want to reuse.

Thanks. I also RTFMed the "Keyboard bindings" section of the docs and
discovered "ctrl+up" and "ctrl+down" to accomplish the same thing. I like
your way better though.

>
>
> >...
> > P.S.
> > On a related note, I can't seem to use IDLE anymore. I tried to start
> > c:\Python20\Tools\IDLE\idle.pyw
> > I got an error message (unable to locate DLL tk83.dll). Sure enough,
> > this isn't on my system.
> > Is IDLE supposed to work using Pythonwin?
>
> The solution is described here:
>
> http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePython/Extensions/
>
> But it is geared towards ActivePython build 203!
>

I took Sheilas advice and:
1. uninstalled the Activestate distribution
2. reinstalled the BeOpen distribution
3. added the Activestate Win32all extensions

Now I can poke around the Pythonwin IDE, but run back to
Jedit/IDLE/bash(Cygwin on NT) if I start to get dizzy :-)