[Pythonmac-SIG] Extensions for static versus frame

[Tony Lownds]

At 6:44 PM +0200 7/24/02, Just van Rossum wrote:
>Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>>  I'd really hate to not have readline-like functionality because of a
>>  silly licensing issue.
>
>Me too. An interactive Python interpreter in a terminal window is more or less
>useless without readline.
>

Me three.

It seems to me that the people who would care are those who want to 
distribute their own code using BuildApplication. They can simply 
remove readline.so in that case. Or am I missing something obvious?

A readline-alternative not yet mentioned is Michael Hudson's Pyrepl, 
which is way cool:

http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/pyrepl.html

-Tony