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Stéphane Wirtel webhook-mailer at python.org
Mon Sep 16 12:29:55 EDT 2019




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Subject: Doc: Add link of GNU Readline library to interpreter tutorial
 (GH-16152) (GH-16188)
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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ad4ce9edf3936728b3d74acb1e8b7e84a801=
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commit: ad4ce9edf3936728b3d74acb1e8b7e84a80120c1
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.co=
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committer: St=C3=A9phane Wirtel <stephane at wirtel.be>
date: 2019-09-16T18:29:50+02:00
summary:

Doc: Add link of GNU Readline library to interpreter tutorial (GH-16152) (GH-=
16188)

(cherry picked from commit f18242be16714da2cfe013dbadfaf2e31d971562)

Co-authored-by: Adorilson Bezerra <adorilson at gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst

diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst
index 647dd72b374f..daa417364244 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst
@@ -34,13 +34,14 @@ status.  If that doesn't work, you can exit the interpret=
er by typing the
 following command: ``quit()``.
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 The interpreter's line-editing features include interactive editing, history
-substitution and code completion on systems that support readline.  Perhaps =
the
-quickest check to see whether command line editing is supported is typing
-:kbd:`Control-P` to the first Python prompt you get.  If it beeps, you have =
command
-line editing; see Appendix :ref:`tut-interacting` for an introduction to the
-keys.  If nothing appears to happen, or if ``^P`` is echoed, command line
-editing isn't available; you'll only be able to use backspace to remove
-characters from the current line.
+substitution and code completion on systems that support the `GNU Readline
+<https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html>`_ library.
+Perhaps the quickest check to see whether command line editing is supported =
is
+typing :kbd:`Control-P` to the first Python prompt you get.  If it beeps, you
+have command line editing; see Appendix :ref:`tut-interacting` for an
+introduction to the keys.  If nothing appears to happen, or if ``^P`` is
+echoed, command line editing isn't available; you'll only be able to use
+backspace to remove characters from the current line.
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 The interpreter operates somewhat like the Unix shell: when called with stan=
dard
 input connected to a tty device, it reads and executes commands interactivel=
y;



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