On Apr 13, 2006, at 9:41 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: > Just curious... > > Is there really a need for the readline library? On Mac, I always run > Python shells in either (1) Terminal, or (2) xterm, or (3) an Emacs > shell buffer. All of them have readline capability built in. I never > need Python to have readline capability. What's the use case here?
The issue that got this going was using IPython, which is (i) a really nice command line interface to python for one thing, and (ii) has extremely good support for matplotlib, which I am using. It seems that IPython requires a fully patched version of readline 5.1. Without it, I (and others) found it can give a segmentation fault when you are zipping around the history with up arrow and down arrow. It's been a long time since anything 'just crashed' on me :) But it did it repeatedly with the unpatched version of readline. I never ran into anything like this problem with MacPython in any other environment. But since quite a few people in the IPython and matplotlib community recommend MacPython, I thought it was worth raising here. Cheers, Mike _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
