string module

[Fernando Pérez]

Michael Hudson wrote:

>> So indeed, since I'm loading readline at the interactive prompt, there's an
>> under the hood resetting of the locale. Ah, the beauty of perl-like silent,
>> implicit global changes ;)
> 
> Now trying playing with signals at the interactive prompt[1]
> <wink/frown>.  I wouldn't want to live without readline, but sometimes
> I do wish it wouldn't bugger around with stuff my application cares
> about so much.
> 

Agreed. There's not much I can do about readline (I'm not going to rewrite the 
whole thing!) but I did rewrite a lot of rlcompleter and other things which 
import readline (like pdb) just so they wouldn't muck around globally so 
much! In that sense rlcompleter is very poorly designed: there should be an 
explicit need to call a global initializer so that submodules which import it 
don't damage your global readline namespace handling (like pdb does).

Oh well, one of these days I'll have to wrap all these things as patches and 
send them in.

f.