issues installing readine-1.12 on WinXP

[Michele Simionato]

I have installed Gary Bishop's readline library and Thomas
Heller's cypes; I have Python 2.4 ActiveState distribution.
When I try to import readline I get the following error:

C:\Programmi>python
ActivePython 2.4 Build 243 (ActiveState Corp.) based on
Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 09:34:21) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
VkKeyScan("`") = -1
>>> import readline
Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "'Console' object has no attribute
'saveatt
r'" in <bound method Console.__del__ of <readline.Console.Console
object at 0x00
BB5E10>> ignored
VkKeyScan("`") = -1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\readline\__init__.py", line 1, in
?
    from PyReadline import *
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\readline\PyReadline.py", line
1091, in ?
    rl = Readline()
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\readline\PyReadline.py", line 46,
in __ini
t__
    self.emacs_editing_mode(None)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\readline\PyReadline.py", line
1008, in ema
cs_editing_mode
    self._bind_key('"%s"' % chr(c), self.self_insert)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\readline\PyReadline.py", line
1000, in _bi
nd_key
    keyinfo = key_text_to_keyinfo(key)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\readline\keysyms.py", line 101,
in key_tex
t_to_keyinfo
    return keyseq_to_keyinfo(keytext[1:-1])
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\readline\keysyms.py", line 163,
in keyseq_
to_keyinfo
    res.append(char_to_keyinfo(keyseq[0], control, meta, shift))
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\readline\keysyms.py", line 111,
in char_to
_keyinfo
    raise ValueError, 'bad key'
ValueError: bad key

Any hints on what is causing this and the cure?
TIA,

         Michele Simionato