Modify Input() text

[catosp]

Hello!

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strText = "this is text 1" a = input()+strText #or something like this print(a)

How can I make to appear strText as input text that can be modified? What I want is to modify some text in strText but i don't want to write the entire string from the beggining, i want to appear automatically the strText and to modify only some text inside.

I hope that you can understand me!
Thank you!

[Gribouillis]

I hope that you can understand me!

Sorry, I cannot. Please explain what you want to do. For example suppose that the user enters "spam". What effect do you expect from your code?

[catosp]

I want to use strText as predefined input text which can be modified from keyboard before hit enter and to pass it to variable a.

[Yoriz]

Maybe something like

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strText = "this is text 1" a = ', '.join((input('input something '), strText)) print(a)

Output:
input something something
something, this is text 1

[catosp]

@Yoriz. Not exactly!
Let suppose that you want to write from keyboard in console for the input() the following text: I love hamburger. But you dont want to write the same string again and again, sometimes you want to write:I hate hamburger. In that case instead of write I hate hamburger from keyboard, you want to appear in console the text I love hamburger, and navigate with your keyboard arrow to word love and delete it with backspace and replace it with the word hate.

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Something like when you hit up arrow on cmd and call the last command, but instead of last command I want a specific predefined string, but which can be modified.

[Yoriz]

Sound like you would be better off using a GUI with a text entry which can be pre-filled with anything you like.

[deanhystad]

I think catosp is talking about something like command line retrieval that is supported by almost every command shell. And I have the ability to recall previous things I typed into a python script if I started that script from a shell. For example I rand a program from the Windows CMD shell:

Output:
C:\musings>python echo.py
type something: I typed this
I typed this
type something: I typed this and used up arrow to recall "I typed this"
I typed this and used up arrow to recall "I typed this"

If you are running a program from IDLE you can access the "input" history by typing alt+p. For other terminals in other IDE's I imagine there are similar ways to reduce typing.