[New-bugs-announce] [issue4502] Allowing get_pre_input_hook from Readline

[Conrad.Irwin]

New submission from Conrad.Irwin <conrad.irwin at gmail.com>:

At the moment there is no way of getting the current pre_input_hook out
of the readline module, so applications cannot set_pre_input_hook
without possibly over-writing users settings (or other parts of the
applications settings) I have attached a patch that implements this
functionality.

It is probably not very useful in many situations, but I am now using it
to maintain my normal custom auto-indenting python prompt in a library
that allows me to edit arbitrary strings using readline. A better way to
implement this might be to

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components: Library (Lib)
files: readline.c.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 76808
nosy: Conrad.Irwin
severity: normal
status: open
title: Allowing get_pre_input_hook from Readline
versions: Python 2.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12207/readline.c.diff

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