[Pythonmac-SIG] Readline

[Bob Ippolito]

Standard readline keys mostly.. this should be all you need:
http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/readline/rluserman.html
http://docs.python.org/dev/tut/node15.html

-bob

On Feb 13, 2006, at 6:10 AM, Ken Brooks wrote:

> Finally choosing to find the time, I installed MacPython 2.4.1.   
> But now I need documentation, and Google was not helpful.  What  
> keystrokes have new meanings in the MacPython interactive window as  
> a result of having readline?
>
> Ken
>
> At 9:55 AM -0800 1/17/06, Christopher Barker wrote:
>> Ken Brooks wrote:
>>> Still nothing changes!  So how does the debug loop work?  How can I
>>> reload a module short of relaunching the environment??
>>  ^^^^^^
>>
>> You've just inadvertently answered your own question. That's what  
>> we mean when we say "Python fits your brain":
>>
>>>>> reload(foo)
>>
>> Python caches modules so that if one module is imported in ten  
>> different places, it doesn't reload them each time. To force a  
>> reload you use, appropriately enough, the reload function.
>>
>>> 2. I really wish for the "doskey" feature that lets you easily
>>> retrieve and edit a line previously typed to the interactive
>>> interpreter.  Does it exist here?
>>
>> Yup. It's called readline. Apple doesn't ship it with OS-X,  
>> because it's licensed under the GPL, but you can install in  
>> separately, or you can install a new version of python that has it.
>>
>> See:
>> http://undefined.org/python/
>>
>> for a newer Python, and:
>>
>> http://www.pythonmac.org/packages/
>>
>> For an assortment of add-on packages
>>
>> There is a readline for th python 2.3 that came with OS-X 10.4  
>> there. It may work with 10.4 also, if you install  
>> "TigerPython23Compat" from that page also.
>>
>> All that being said, you might want to try one of the fancier  
>> python shells for interactive use, like ipython. Or, just write  
>> your entire script in a file (or multiple files) and restart  
>> python each time. It's rare that something take that long to run  
>> that re-starting is a problem. You can start it with:
>>
>> $ python -i MyScript.py
>>
>> and you'll get the interpreter prompt when it's done running.
>>
>> -Chris
>>
>>
>> -
>>
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