[Patches] [Patch #102891] Alternative readline module

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Ah, of course.  I saw that, even played with it a bit.
> 
> I saw that *someone* had downloaded it from a *.reston1.va.home.com
> address...

Could've been Fred or Tim...

> > Looks cool, but I don't know about using it to replace readline.
> 
> No, neither do I.  But it might be nice to have sufficient hooks in
> the core to allow a sufficiently enterprising user to replace readline
> with it.

A hook exists: you can assign a readline-ish function to
PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer.

> > But you might want to change the name given that pyrl is already
> > taken.  ;-)
> 
> >From http://www.amk.ca/quotations/python-quotes.html:
> 
>   I would recommend not wasting any more time on the naming
>   issue. (This is a recurring theme in my posts -- remember, I spent
>   about 0.3 microseconds thinking about whether "Python" would be a
>   good name for a programming language, and I've never regretted it.)
>          Guido van Rossum, 25 Nov 1998
> 
> I'll give you 0.2 microseconds :-)
> 
> But, yes.  Anyone have any ideas? (or I'll just call it pyttyinput)

Not me, I wasted my 0.2 usec on Python :-).

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)