[IPython-dev] [IPython-user] IPython 0.8.2 and PyReadline 1.5, getting ready for release...

Fernando Perez fperez.net at gmail.com
Sun Nov 25 14:35:47 EST 2007


On Nov 24, 2007 2:24 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> I will get access to a Leopard machine soon (roughly a week,
> hopefully), so I should be able to dig into this myself.  Unless
> someone has a fix they can send us, I think I'll cut out the 0.8.2
> release tomorrow, and we'll continue to work on this one in the
> upcoming weeks so we can have a fully Leopard-happy ipython.
>
> It seems to me that the multi-line history is getting mangled up in
> leopard's libedit, which may behave differently than readline in some
> subtle aspects.  That may be a bug in our part or one in libedit, but
> even if it's the latter, we might be able to work around it somehow.

I made a ticket for this, so we can track progress on the issue:

http://ipython.scipy.org/ipython/ipython/ticket/199

Cheers,

f



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