In an interactive command-line Python program on Linux, I want to be able to read a line at a time from stdin, providing command line history and editing to the user. In C, I would use GNU readline to do that.
Python has the readline module, which appears to be a wrapper for GNU readline. However, I've read and re-read the documenation for that module, but I'm completely baffled. There's all sorts of stuff about history files, but I neither need nor want a history file. Likewise tab-completion: don't want it. All the examples not only involve history files and tab-completion but they're somehow connected to the interactive Python REPL, which is also completely off-base for my use case. Is the readline module not the right tool for an interactive Linux command-line application that needs to provide command line recall and editing to the user who's entering stuff on stdin from a tty? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
