[IPython-dev] iPython binary wheels for OS-X

[Aaron Meurer]

There's the rl library. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rl.

Aaron Meurer

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Guido specifically did not want to have user
>> installed packages able to overwrite stdlib behaviour.
>
>
> makes some sense...
>
>> So, by policy, it's hard to override stdlib modules - even when they
>> don't work right (which appears to be the issue with readline on OSX,
>> if I understand the comments in this thread properly). IMO, we'd be a
>> lot better off readline was split out of the stdlib so that things
>> like improved OSX support and pyreadline for Windows could be added.
>> But I doubt that will ever happen :-(
>
>
> Maybe rather than overriding an stsdlib package, it could be given a new
> name:
>
> "readline2", or somethign more creative. This wouldn't allow you to install
> and "fixed" one that would then automagically work everywhere, but would
> allow 3rd party packages to depend on it. And, of course, it oculd be
> imported conditionally:
>
> try:
>     import readline2 as readline
> except:
>     import readline
>
> On the other hand, the current third party readline really is a replacement
> for the (sometimes broken) built-in-readline, so maybe overwriting does make
> sense in this case -- even though it should be discouraged in teh general
> case.
>
> Anyone know if the readline authors would be amenable to putting the
> path-hack that's in iPyton in readline instead? That's clearly where it
> belongs...(or is that impossible?, after all it would have to get imported
> to run, and it wouldn't get imported......)
>
> -Chris
>
>
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