groner

history expansion is normally only enabled for interactive shells. They could turn it on, but if there isn't any history because this isn't really interactive, it wouldn't do anything useful.

PEP3003 was a moratorium on language changes in order to allow alternate implementations time to catch up. This meant that Python 3.1 and Python 3.2 didn't include any new language features. Releases since the moratorium ended have been much more compelling, IMO.

CSS does specify a tty media type. I've never been able to find an implementation for an actual tty though.