It the IDLE shell, it's not possible to retrieve lines entered earlier
without copying them. Is there an edit facility?
I suggest you download a programmers' editor (like Notepad++ or PsPad)
for programming work and use the basic Python interpreter for
interactive work. The basic interpreter lives in a standard Window
console window where you can use up and down arrow keys, F8 completion,
F7 for list of earlier commands, etc (as documented by the doskey
command in the Windows command interpreter). Just forget IDLE in
windows: while Windows console windows are something from the middle
ages, IDLE seems to stem from a period before that! <g>
Cheers & hth.,
- Alf
PS: Shameless plug: take a look at <url:
http://tinyurl.com/programmingbookP3>, it's for Windows.
I just downloaded the three files. It looks useful. I take it you are
the author?
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