Any other Python flaws?

[Remco Gerlich]

Tiago Henriques <tiago.henriques at portugal.sun.com> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Another annoying missing feature is the absence of command line editing in the
> python shell. Perhaps now that the license has been made gnu-compatible it will
> be possible to ship python pre-compiled with the readline library, instead of 
> having to compile python yourself. I have compiled python with readline support
> myself, and it's pretty easy, but for the average user who is afraid of makefiless
> and compilations, it would be extra-nice if python were a bit more user-friendly
> out-of-the-box.

This isn't good, because readline is under the GPL. The only thing that the
GPL compatibility means is that people are allowed to distribute a version
of Python with readline compiled in - *under the GPL*.

Python licensed under the GPL would be bad - it couldn't be embedded in
non-GPL projects anymore.

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Remco Gerlich