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pythonstartup.py
# Disables Python's default history handling
# See https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/4898415df724380d4c8b0ec08e8cb92f126193c3/Lib/site.py#L462-L483
# Makes history only available in the current shell and stops reading and writing it to disk
# Only side-effect is there is an empty history entry before getting a bell while pressing up arrow
__import__('readline').add_history('')
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