On Apr 12, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Michael Broe wrote: > I'm having an issue using IPython that may be related to readline, > which I am pursuing on the IPython mailing list. > > I had my self-built version of readline 5.1 installed in /usr/local/ > include, and I patched and reinstalled it, which was one theory for > fixing the problem, but no go.
That's not going to do anything at all unless you were to also recompile Python. > I'm just curious about the readline component of the Universal > MacPython 2.4.3 release. > > http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/category/python/ says: > > "Includes a working bsddb, readline, and curses." > > Where is that readline installed? Who trumps who, a readline I have > installed in /usr/local/include, or MacPython's readline? It's linked statically into the readline extension, so it doesn't know nor care about any other readline. > Does the installer check for the presence of readline, and make > decisions accordingly? No. It comes with its own private copy of readline. The installer doesn't recompile anything. > Just trying to get the lay of the land in order to isolate the > problem. > > Here is my post to IPython, for context. > > Cheers, > Mike > > --- > If I partially (or completely) enter a command onto a line, then hit > the up arrow, I cannot scroll back through history, and worse, if I > hit up twice, or hit up then down, I get a bus error and am ejected > from ipython. In the following, I type in "print range" then hit the > up arrow twice: Are you running 10.3.9 by chance? It might be an incompatibility there, we don't test very thoroughly on anything but 10.4.x due to availability. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
