[Pythonmac-SIG] readline on OS X 10.4 on Intel?

[Bob Ippolito]

On 8/17/06, Simon Willison <swillison at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just got my hands on a MacBook Pro, but the old trick for getting
> readline running for Python no longer works:
>
> $ python `python -c "import pimp; print pimp.__file__"` -i readline
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> ... <snip> ...
> urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>
> Further investigation shows that the URL in question is:
>
> http://www.python.org/packman/version-0.5/prod-2.3-darwin_apple-8.7.1-i386.plist
>
> The files in http://www.python.org/packman/version-0.5/ haven't been
> touched since April of last year.
>
> What's the current recommended way of getting readline running with
> the python 2.3.5 that comes with Intel macs?

Install universal Python 2.4, it comes with readline. Otherwise, you
have to build it yourself.

-bob