Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> writes:

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 04:03:04AM -0800, Neil Schemenauer wrote:

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On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:17:08AM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

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I'm not sure I agree with that view either, but mostly because there is a non-GPL replacement for parts of the readline API:

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/downloads/editline.html

It doesn't work with the current readline module. It is much smaller than readline and works just as well in my experience. Would there be any interest in including a copy with the standard distribution? The license is quite nice (X11 type).

Definately +1 from here. Readline reminds me of the cold war, for some reason. (Actually, multiple reasons ;) I don't have time to do it myself, unfortunately, or I would. (Looking at editline has been on my TODO list for a while... :P)

It wouldn't be particularly hard to rewrite editline in Python (we have termios & the terminal handling functions in curses - and even ioctl if we get really keen). I've been hacking on my own Python line reader on and off for a while; it's still pretty buggy, but if you're feeling brave you could look at: http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~mwh21/hacks/pyrl-0.0.0.tar.gz To try it out, unpack it, cd into the ./pyrl directory and try:

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import foo # sorry foo.test_loop()

It sort of imitates the Python command prompt, except that it doesn't actually execute the code you type. You need a recent _cursesmodule.c for it to work. Cheers, M. -- 41. Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. -- Alan Perlis, http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html