readline clear buffer

[luc wastiaux]

In article <FWRla.4654$T34.116245 at news2.tin.it>, Alex Martelli wrote:
> luc wastiaux wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> when using readline, I can retrieve the contents of the line buffer using
>> get_line_buffer()
>> 
>> but is there a way to clear this buffer ? none of the provided functions
>> seem to allow that: http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-readline.html
> 
> Right: it seems that Python's readline.c does not expose interfaces to
> rl_delete_text, rl_kill_text, or other GNU Readline functions that would
> allow such behavior.  I suspect the simplest solution would be to patch
> readline.c to add such interfaces (also patch the docs accordingly), and
> submit the patch to sourceforge, where I think it would be welcome (and
> still in time to get into Python 2.3, for a modest addition, I think).

Hello,
thank you for your advice, I patched readline.c and added a delete_text 
method, I will test it and if it behaves correctly I will submit the patch 
to sourceforge.

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