Good afternoon,

The Question

Is there a particular spot that the entries are stored, or is it just a local set of stored variables, for the windows version of Python?

The Context

I am curious about where Python.exe stores the entries typed out from the command line, not the Tkinter GUI. I'm particularly interested in this because I've noticed you can resort to previous entries if you are typing in raw_input(). There have been many discussions in regards to raw_input() and input() receiving some sort of default argument that is editable.

See. This link to a related SO question

Obviously this is very doable with Linux / GNU with modules that will allow you to take advantage of Bash's format. Windows users are unlucky in that regard.

Notes on these modules:

readline is GNU based and does not work properly in Windows.

pyreadline does not benefit the command line interpreter.

curses is GNU based and does not work at all in Windows.

A Follow up

The conclusion I'm arriving to is that if the user is given a pre-defined set of entries, you can limit what is entered into the command space.

P.S. - I understand it is much easier to just create a PySide, Tkinter or "other"-based GUIs to get around what I'm asking.

Sir James

On Windows 7, using the standard Python 3.7 command interpreter (not IPython or IDLE), the command history is stored in the file %USERPROFILE%\.python_history. This location is not used for Python 2.7.x, as the Python command history feature was introduced starting with Python 3.4.