[Pythonmac-SIG] enabling readline

[Scott Frankel]

I'm attempting to enable the readline utility for my install of Python,
which I got with the Developers Tools install.  Each step of the 
readline
build went smoothly and without error; but importing readline in a 
python
console spits:
	ImportError: No module named readline

My guess (unless someone's got another idea) is that I'm got a bum path;
or some part of the readline install put a file where it didn't belong. 
  Dunno.

Thanks in advance for helping me get this running!  Here are the 
particulars:

MacOSX 10.2.4
readline-4.3
   - unpacked from source
   - edited readline/support/shobj-conf for ncurses:
       SHLIB_LIBS='-lSystem -lncurses -lcc_dynamic'
   - configure, make, install with no args
   - this produced readline.o in /usr/src/readline-4.3
   - also produced
       /usr/local/lib/
             libreadline.4.3.dylib
             libreadline.a

  - install script ended by recommending that I run ldconfig.  But 
there's no
     such tool present on my machine.

python from Apple Developer Tools install:
      /usr/bin/python2.2

I haven't set a PYTHONPATH env var yet.  In fact, I don't know what to 
set it to.
The modules in /usr/lib/python2.2 load without error in spite of not 
having that
path set.  I even renamed one to "foo.pyc" and was able to import it in 
a python
console.

Clearly, I'm at a loss as to which readline compile product (readline.o 
or the
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.* files, or other?) is supposed to by 
called.  And, can
python import a non-pyc object?  None of the readline products looked 
like they
were intended for python.

Thanks again!
Scott