On Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:48:42 AM UTC+2, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Matt Burson<msbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there a way to reproduce the behavior of IDLE's restart shell ability by > > using a function? I thought there would be since you can exit python by > > executing the simple quit() function I thought there would be an equally > > simple function name something like restart(). I'd prefer something like > > this as opposed to having to exit the shell and then start it up again to > > refresh it. > > I believe IDLE itself implements the "restart" capability by killing > and re-launching its Python interpreter subprocess, so it's not like > it's using some hidden capability of Python to accomplish this. > Is doing Ctrl+D, up-arrow, Enter really that hard? It's even fewer > keystrokes than "restart()"... > > Cheers, > Chris > -- > http://blog.rebertia.com
You might be launching python from something else other than a shell and it might be harder to re-launch it from there -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
