[Windows] New REPL does not preserve history between sessions

[pfmoore]

Bug report

Bug description:

I have downloaded Python 3.13.0, Windows 64 bit version from python.org. I have done nothing to customise it.

I start Python. type "12" at the REPL, and press enter. The value 12 is displayed. I hit Ctrl-Z to exit (same happens if I type "exit"). I restart Python and hit the up arrow key. It does not retrieve the "12" from my previous session.

CPython versions tested on:

3.13

Operating systems tested on:

Windows

[hroncok]

I was unable to reproduce this problem on Fedora. This might be Windows-specific.

[devdanzin]

This is a (supposedly) known limitation, as history support in Windows hasn't been added so far. I took a stab at it in #122274.

[pfmoore]

:-(

That's something that should probably be publicised much better, then, as it's a surprising and (in my case at least) frustrating limitation compared to the old OS-provided REPL. I'm not sure it's bad enough that I'd switch off the new REPL, but it will take some getting used to.

[skirpichev]

Sounds like #121245 reappears. Does this build has readline support?

[vstinner]

Sounds like #121245 reappears. Does this build has readline support?

Windows has no readline module.

[jmw182]

In previous versions of python3, installing pyreadline3 added readline support to Windows, which enabled REPL history between sessions. This does not work in python 3.13.

[vstinner]

This issue is a duplicate of #122273 which was fixed by 3c7a90a.