[Pythonmac-SIG] Gnu readlines?

[Jack Jansen]

On vrijdag, maart 1, 2002, at 06:36 , kevin parks wrote:

> MacPythonians,
>
> I have always wanted the Python interpreter to behave a bit 
> more like a shell, with a history and command-line editing, 
> etc. I have always found the interpreter to be really 
> unfriendly, which is a shame since Python invites you to fiddle 
> about in the interpreter, yet the interpreter is so 
> unforgiving. There is GNU readlines.

Last time I checked (which was many years ago, admittedly) GNU 
Readline was very  unix-specific. It did all its magic with 
funny stty settings. Plus: the functionality the SIOUX console 
gives you isn't really good enoughb for readline (no cursor 
movements, clear, etc). All in all it would be a major 
undertaking.


> I still don't care much for our stone-age IDE either (sorry, 
> but now that i have seen python under *nix and windoze...),

What's the problem with the IDE? PythonWin with Scintilla is 
better, I must admit, but on unix you only have Idle, and that I 
find really lame.
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