[Pythonmac-SIG] Interactive Python Question

[Jason Clark]

Is there any way to get shell-style editing in Interactive Python?  
When using MacPython IDE's interactive window, the arrow keys move you 
around the window; when using Panther's cmdline python2.3 (which I 
prefer), the arrow keys generate ctrl characters.  I'd really to have 
shell editing behavior:  Up/Down arrow moves through history, 
left/right arrows edit the current line, and emacs bindings (like 
Ctrl-A & Ctrl-E) wouldn't be bad either.  I read somewhere that curses 
support can be compiled into python, but I think they were talking 
about writing python scripts that use curses, not the interpreter.  Any 
suggestions?

Thanks,
Jason


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