Re: Questions on the Python Shell

Bart Janssens wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Timothy M. Shead<tshead@...> wrote:
>> Paulo Teotonio Sobrinho wrote:

>>> 2) It seems that line editing in 0.7.12.0 python shell is not working. For
>>> example, I am able to move the cursor to any point on a line of text, but
>>> I can not erase or insert any character.

>> This is by-design - the Python shell works like any other - once you
>> enter a command with the "return" key, it becomes part of the shell
>> history.  Editing it after the fact wouldn't make any sense, since the
>> command has already been executed by the Python interpreter.  You seem
>> to want some kind of hybrid between a text editor and an interactive
>> interpreter.  I'm open to the idea, but I've never seen such a thing.
>> Got an example?

> I think this really was a bug: moving somewhere in the middle of a
> non-submitted line of code did not allow editing. I fixed this in my
> branch, see changeset:
> http://code.google.com/p/k3d-bart/source/detail?r=9c859a8ea62a22817ea44f236fcf150ee0dce7c9

My mistake, I see what you mean now.  Although I'm not giving-up on my
lifelong dream of a hybrid text editor / interactive shell ;)

I notice that the diff on your changeset is the entire file ... is this
google code do you think, or some subtlety of the way you're bridging to
svn?

Cheers,
Tim

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