[Patches] [Patch #102891] Alternative readline module

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Sadly, this isn't the case -- pyrl uses curses and/or termios calls
> > that are highly Unix specific. :-)
> 
> Actually one could probably rewrite the bottom layer to use /F's
> Console library without too much sweat.  Currently my code is also
> highly tty dependent - it dies horribly if you try to use it inside
> emacs, for example.

I believe that everything /F's console library does is also done by
the classes in the standard code module!  Check it out...  (Even IDLE
uses that, and it's future-proof.)

> > Just use IDLE -- it has all that.  Character cell interfaces aren't
> > worth the effort of keeping up.
> 
> Well, I like them, and if I'm prepared to put the effort into writing
> one, that's all it takes, isn't it?  I don't necessarily expect people
> to understand me...

Of course.  I don't want to discourage you.  But I also don't want to
be pressured into adopting your code into the core.

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