On Friday, April 14, 2006, at 03:42AM, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > >Bill Terminal and xterm don't have readline capability, the shell (bash) does. But that is of no use when you're in the python interactive shell. Then having readline support in python is very handy. Ronald > > _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
