[Python-Dev] auto-import rlcompleter instead of readline?

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Greg Ward writes:
 > But I think having this convenience built-in for free would be a very
 > nice thing.  I used Python for over a year before I found out about
 > PYTHONSTARTUP, and it was another year after that that I learnedabout
 > readline.parse_and_bind().  Why not save future newbies the bother?

  Maybe.  Or perhaps you should have looked at the tutorial?  ;-)


  -Fred

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