On 2013-10-21 15:55, David Robinow wrote: > I wasn't aware that the interactive interpreter on Linux had > features that the Windows version didn't. I'm curious what those > features might be.
It's mostly the benefits that come from being built with the readline library, meaning you get - command history (Win32 offers this, the rest not AFAIK) - command-history searchability (control+R) - the ability to pull down things from previous lines (alt+period in particular) - the ability to comment out the currently typed command without executing it (alt+octothorpe) - the ability to prefix text/commands with a count (alt+number_of_times followed by the character/command) - the ability to insert matching filenames (alt+asterisk after typing path relative to the $CWD) - clearing to the start/end of line (control+U/control+K) - the ability to paste content (control+Y) previously-cut by ^U/^K - the ability to transpose adjacent words (alt+T) - the ability to jump forward/backward to a specified character (control+] and control+alt+] followed by the target char) like f/F in vi/vim Those are just a subset of the power offered by readline when built into Python's interpreter, none of which work (other than that first one) on Win32's cmd.exe (or, I suppose command.com). -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
