On Mar 25, 6:35 pm, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > In article > <AANLkTimrz_=6qghqdqk3rh7hogocjjxzkgy4dcjf4...@mail.gmail.com>, > Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kap...@case.edu> wrote: > > > As I stated above, py-readline is for if you're using Macports, which > > is a package manager for Mac OS X. > > ... in which case you probably want: > > sudo port install py-readline > > > If you installed Python through > > some other means, I'm not sure why you don't have readline installed > > already, because it should be built with the rest of the Python > > modules. > > For releases prior to Python 2.6 and Python 3.2, to build the Python > readline module, you need to have installed a local version of the GNU > readline library, a library which is not included in Mac OS X. Starting > with Python 2.6 and with a deployment target of Mac OS X 10.5 or higher, > the Python readline module will be automatically linked with the > Apple-supplied BSD editline (libedit) library. > > P.S to Julien: Python 2.4 is *really* old now and is no longer supported > by the Python developers. It probably won't build correctly on current > OS X 10.6 without some help. Python 2.7.1 and Python 3.2 are the > current releases. > > -- > Ned Deily, > n...@acm.org
Thank you Ned and Benjamin, and sorry for the confusion :) I did install python2.4 using Mac Ports, and as you've suggested I've just installed py-readlines using Mac Ports as well, and it now works! Many thanks! Julien -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list