Is it possible to disable readline in the interactive interpreter?

[Paul Moore]

On Jun 8, 7:31 pm, Tim Golden <m... at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> Paul Moore wrote:
> > I run Python on Windows. I have the (pure Python) pyreadline package
> > installed for (occasional) use by IPython. However, when I use the
> > normal Python interactive prompt, the mere fact that the readline
> > module exists means that it gets used.
>
> I used to get round this by installing pyreadline within the
> iPython package, so it only appeared to exist from that
> app's POV.

Interesting approach - I hadn't thought of that. I might give that a
try. Nevertheless, if it isn't possible to disable readline, I may
just raise a bug report as well...

Paul.