On 2013-10-19 14:08, David Robinow wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> You can try all these out in the interactive interpreter (you >> probably have IDLE installed, which on Windows is rather nicer to >> work with than the default interactive mode). > > IDLE is cross-platform. Could you explain why you say "on > Windows"?
In my experience, the Win32 Python console lacks readline support (like my stock Python on the Mac OS X machine I have here), and as such lacks a lot of the niceties. At least on Win32, there is recall of previous commands (my Mac lacks even that), but there's no easy "search for the previous command I typed that contains the following keyword" (control-R followed by search term), no easy "insert all matching filenames here" (alt+asterisk), etc. Idle may not provide all that, but it hopefully provides at least *some* basic features that the console python.exe lacks. -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list