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

[Chris Barker]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Aaron Meurer <asmeurer at gmail.com> wrote:

> There's the rl library. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rl.
>
> Any idea if it supports (a superset of) the same API as the built-in
readline?

-Chris







> 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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