Hey, I had an ipython console open inside a tmux split window and I needed to save the history to a file. Since I can't copy & paste the data from the screen (I was in the middle of a session, so the next time I would configure it correctly using this ). So I found a quicker way, Roberto Z wrote in his comment that in order to save the session's history you can use readline package: import readline readline.write_history_file('/home/user/current_history') This works like a charm in Ubuntu. - Tal Kain