On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:35:32AM +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > The Windows default command line editing experience is a lot better > (IMO) than the (non-readline) Unix default, and it's common throughout > all interactive prompts (Python's REPL included). As a result, when > readline is installed (pyreadline on Windows, which used to be needed > for IPython) it disrupts the "normal" editing experience. It's > possible that with a bit of configuration and practice I could get > used to the readline experience, but then I get a different experience > when in a venv where I don't have pyreadline installed.
Ah, that makes sense. > The idea that simply having a module called "readline" available, > changes the REPL behaviour, with no way to configure that, seems > incredibly hostile to me. I think that making readline less aggressive (at least for Windows users) may be a reasonable feature request for 3.7. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
