Finally choosing to find the time, I installed MacPython 2.4.1. But now I need documentation, and Google was not helpful. What keystrokes have new meanings in the MacPython interactive window as a result of having readline?
Ken At 9:55 AM -0800 1/17/06, Christopher Barker wrote: >Ken Brooks wrote: >>Still nothing changes! So how does the debug loop work? How can I >>reload a module short of relaunching the environment?? > ^^^^^^ > >You've just inadvertently answered your own question. That's what we mean when >we say "Python fits your brain": > >>>> reload(foo) > >Python caches modules so that if one module is imported in ten different >places, it doesn't reload them each time. To force a reload you use, >appropriately enough, the reload function. > >>2. I really wish for the "doskey" feature that lets you easily >>retrieve and edit a line previously typed to the interactive >>interpreter. Does it exist here? > >Yup. It's called readline. Apple doesn't ship it with OS-X, because it's >licensed under the GPL, but you can install in separately, or you can install >a new version of python that has it. > >See: >http://undefined.org/python/ > >for a newer Python, and: > >http://www.pythonmac.org/packages/ > >For an assortment of add-on packages > >There is a readline for th python 2.3 that came with OS-X 10.4 there. It may >work with 10.4 also, if you install "TigerPython23Compat" from that page also. > >All that being said, you might want to try one of the fancier python shells >for interactive use, like ipython. Or, just write your entire script in a file >(or multiple files) and restart python each time. It's rare that something >take that long to run that re-starting is a problem. You can start it with: > >$ python -i MyScript.py > >and you'll get the interpreter prompt when it's done running. > >-Chris > > >- > >Christopher Barker, Ph.D. >Oceanographer > >NOAA/OR&R/HAZMAT (206) 526-6959 voice >7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax >Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
