I'm trying to cobble together an IDLE equivalent using pyshell and VIM (My idea is just to pipe exec file commands from VIM to pyshell via a socket or something). The one feature that IDLE has that I would really like but can't seem to duplicate is the "Restart Shell" command. Delving through the IDLE code, it looks like IDLE kills and restarts its InteractiveInterpreter-derived class to do this. Is this really necessary? If I just take __main__.__dict__ and strip out everything since a start point, haven't I restored the interpreter to a virgin state?
(Of course, assuming that there are no threads running, no c-code-invoked junk lying around, etc). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
