On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:52 -0500, Roy Smith wrote: > Another possibility is setting your TERM environment variable to > something that readline can't support: > > ~$ TERM=asr33 > ~$ python > Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. > build 5646)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" > for more information. Cannot read termcap database; > using dumb terminal settings. > Cannot read termcap database; > using dumb terminal settings. > Cannot read termcap database; > using dumb terminal settings.
Damn, my python is smarter than your python. steve@runes:~$ TERM=asr33 steve@runes:~$ python Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40) [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> And readline continues to work :/ I think I'll install from source a build with readline disabled. > BTW, readline is the coolest, awesomist, most frabjulously gnarly thing > to be invented since the pointed stick. The idea that somebody would > want to turn it off (even for testing) disturbs me deeply. I know! I don't use more than about 1% of what readline offers, but I can't imagine not using it. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
