u'''Return the number of lines currently in the history.
        (This is different from get_history_length(), which returns 
        the maximum number of lines that will be written to a history file.)

def get_current_history_length(self):
        u'''Return the number of lines currently in the history.
        (This is different from get_history_length(), which returns 
        the maximum number of lines that will be written to a history file.)'''
        value = len(self.history)
        log(u"get_current_history_length:%d"%value)
        return value