On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:37:56 +0000, Tim Golden wrote: > >> The interpreter inherits the command shell's history function: Open a >> cmd window and then a Python session. Do some stuff. >> >> Ctrl-Z to exit to the surrounding cmd window. Do some random cmd stuff: >> dir, cd, etc. >>>> > [1]+ Stopped python
Ctrl-Z is the Windows equivalent (well, mostly) of Linux's Ctrl-D. You want to cleanly exit the interpreter, not SIGSTOP it. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list