interpreter improvements

[Joal Heagney]

Chris Gonnerman wrote:
> 
> Are you on Windows?  All the things you mentioned are available on
> Linux/Unix/BSD/etc. with the readline module.
> 
> On Windows platforms it is possible (but not easy) to get the standard
> GNU readline working.  I created an "Alternative Readline" using a bit
> of code from /F and some home-baked Python code for those of us on
> Windows... get it at
> 
>     http://www.newcenturycomputers.net/projects/readline.html
> 
> It provides command history but not completion.
> 
> Hope this helps...

As an addition for newer users who build on Linux distro's, you have to
make sure that the readline-devel package is installed before build, or
otherwise python builds without it.

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