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added home directory before .python_history
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Change location of ``~/.python_history`

I want to keep the functionality, but change the location of ~/.python_history to $XDG_DATA_HOME/python/python_history.

This gave me the following idea: I could create $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/python/pythonrc and point $PYTHONSTARTUP to it. In there I want to replace the functions readline.read_history_file, readline.write_history_file and readline.append_history_file.

Is there way to replace these functions with themselves, containing a custom filename argument?

If not, do you have another idea how to approach this?

Change location of `.python_history`

I want to keep the functionality, but change the location of .python_history to $XDG_DATA_HOME/python/python_history.

This gave me the following idea: I could create $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/python/pythonrc and point $PYTHONSTARTUP to it. In there I want to replace the functions readline.read_history_file, readline.write_history_file and readline.append_history_file.

Is there way to replace these functions with themselves, containing a custom filename argument?

If not, do you have another idea how to approach this?

Change location of `~/.python_history`

I want to keep the functionality, but change the location of ~/.python_history to $XDG_DATA_HOME/python/python_history.

This gave me the following idea: I could create $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/python/pythonrc and point $PYTHONSTARTUP to it. In there I want to replace the functions readline.read_history_file, readline.write_history_file and readline.append_history_file.

Is there way to replace these functions with themselves, containing a custom filename argument?

If not, do you have another idea how to approach this?

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maddingl
maddingl
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Change location of `.python_history`

I want to keep the functionality, but change the location of .python_history to $XDG_DATA_HOME/python/python_history.

This gave me the following idea: I could create $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/python/pythonrc and point $PYTHONSTARTUP to it. In there I want to replace the functions readline.read_history_file, readline.write_history_file and readline.append_history_file.

Is there way to replace these functions with themselves, containing a custom filename argument?

If not, do you have another idea how to approach this?