[Pythonmac-SIG] readline: where and how installed?

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Fri Apr 14 09:45:45 CEST 2006


 
On Friday, April 14, 2006, at 03:42AM, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:

>Just curious...
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>Is there really a need for the readline library?  On Mac, I always run
>Python shells in either (1) Terminal, or (2) xterm, or (3) an Emacs
>shell buffer.  All of them have readline capability built in.  I never
>need Python to have readline capability.  What's the use case here?
>
>Bill

Terminal and xterm don't have readline capability, the shell (bash) does. But that  is of no use when you're in the python interactive shell. Then having readline support in python is very handy.

Ronald

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