Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> 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. > > Start a second Python session. up-arrow etc. will bring back > the previous Python session's commands (and not the ones you > entered in the surrounding shell)
This isn't true, at least not for ActivePython 2.7.2.5 under Windows 7-64. The second session has no history whatsoever. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list