From: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:30:15 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: #25991: fix readline example to limit history size.  Patch by Daniel Dye.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.12rc1~298
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=167c33672500502c979eeb0a9b4bd7cdd57c0efd;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

#25991: fix readline example to limit history size.  Patch by Daniel Dye.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/readline.rst b/Doc/library/readline.rst
index 64c61a27501c..4fc3e93e592c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/readline.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/readline.rst
@@ -214,6 +214,8 @@ normally be executed automatically during interactive sessions from the user's
    histfile = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".pyhist")
    try:
        readline.read_history_file(histfile)
+       # default history len is -1 (infinite), which may grow unruly
+       readline.set_history_length(1000)
    except IOError:
        pass
    import atexit
@@ -244,5 +246,6 @@ support history save/restore. ::
                atexit.register(self.save_history, histfile)
 
        def save_history(self, histfile):
+           readline.set_history_length(1000)
            readline.write_history_file(histfile)