Building "non-standard" standard extensions

[Martin von Loewis]

Paul Moore <gustav at morpheus.demon.co.uk> writes:

> However, I do have a binary version of the readline library
> available. Can I build the readline module for Windows usingh this?
> Ideally, I'd like to do this *without* having to rebuild the whole
> of Python for Windows (I'm happy with just using the normal build
> for everything else). I've never built Python for myself, so
> apologies if the answer to this is "obvious"...

Building the readline module alone should be possible. I'm not sure
whether the interactive interpreter will use it - it only tries if
stdin isatty.

> (BTW, this doesn't just apply to readline - I have various other libraries
> such as a curses port, which I wouldn't mind trying to integrate as well...)

That should work as well.

Regards,
Martin