[Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble with _readline package

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 9, 2005, at 7:13 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote:

> I downloaded a few packages today from <http://pythonmac.org/packages>
> and installed them (selecting those for MacOS X 10.3 with the built in
> python).
>
> I installed _readlines, _tkinter, _bsddb, py2app and PantherPythonFix
> (even though I had a working _tkinter and _readlines from Package
> Manager).
>
> After that my startup script (that remembers recent commands between
> invocations of python) failed with:
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/Resources/ 
> Python
> .app/Contents/MacOS/Python: object:
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
> python2.3/si
> te-packages/readline.so truncated or malformed object (LC_SEGMENT
> command 2 fileoff field plus filesize field extends past the end of  
> the
> file)

It sounds like somehow your readline.so got corrupted.  The one at  
<http://pythonmac.org/packages/> is not corrupt, I just checked it.

-bob