pydoc&readline Re: some questions unanswered - new programmer ...

Thomas Wouters thomas at xs4all.net
Tue Aug 7 11:02:28 EDT 2001


On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:59:45PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> wrote:

> > Why/how do you want pydoc to support readline ? Isn't it enough that the
> > interpreter supports readline ?

> Maybe because some make a lot of typos, so like to correct instead of
> retype the whole bunch?

> And it's not enough that the interpreter supports it:

>    >>> help()       <<< here I'm a happy camper
>    help>            <<< and here I'm lost without my readline support:(

Aha. So 'help' has its own interactive mode ? How cute...

Well, it should be able to provide readline support, really, and it would be
way cool if it did, because we seriously lack documentation and examples on
how to do that :-)

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