complete GNU readline support?

Ken Kinder ken at _nospam_ken.x13.com
Wed May 26 01:01:36 EDT 1999


Ovidiu Predescu wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to access some advanced GNU readline capabilities from Python
> 1.5.2 but it doesn't seem that the readline module supports them. Is
> there an extension to it that has bindings to GNU readline in a similar
> way the Perl module has? I'm interested in supporting keymaps and
> asynchronous reads from the terminal.

Yeah, I think I saw something like that, but I can't find a URL.  You
also might take a look at the rlcompleter module.  I think together,
they do give you all the readline stuff.  Make sure and look at all the
module functions, not just their enhancements to raw_input.

- Ken




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