[Pythonmac-SIG] Python 2.3 on OS X with readline

[Mark Rowe]

On Friday, Jul 18, 2003, at 00:43 Pacific/Auckland, Just van Rossum 
wrote:

> Mark Rowe wrote:
>> I make a habit of running a CVS version of Python for testing
>> purposes. Recently I noticed that readline support has stopped
>> functioning in my compiled versions.  A little digging has shown that
>> the readline module is being compiled and installed, and that the
>> interpreter is importing it on startup.  The problem appears to be
>> that the readline module (Modules/readline.c) is using its own local
>> copy of the PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer variable instead of the one
>> defined in Parser/myreadline.c .  I am unsure what has caused this to
>> happen.
>
> I just saw that, too, and found the (recent) change that caused it. 
> I've
> posted a note to the committer and the python checkins list.

Thanks for that.  The latest code in CVS does indeed fix this problem.

Mark Rowe