Try using setting a keyboard shortcut with tcc-le (the free 4nt)
http://www.jpsoft.com/index.html
Then set a keyboard alias
alias @@alt-d=dir
In the normal console alt+d will execute dir, in pyconsole_wx nothing happens
Original issue reported on code.google.com by stu.a...@gmail.com on 13 Jan 2009 at 11:26