[Pythonmac-SIG] Python completion in emacs fails on OSX

[Ned Deily]

In article <87ehrn80aj.fsf at gmail.com>, Leo <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems the python interpreter built by Apple doesn't behave like the
> ones built from upstream.
> 
> See this:
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10295#19
> 
> Any idea what's happened to python from apple?

Off the top of my head, I suspect the most likely cause to be that the 
Apple system pythons are built with the BSD editline library rather than 
with GNU readline.  You could try installing the third-party "readline" 
package which replaces the Python standard library "readline" module 
with one linked with GNU readline. 

    http://pypi.python.org/pypi/readline

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org