Documentation bug: Python console behaviour changed

[John Machin]

Kay Schluehr wrote:
> 
> Peter Hansen schrieb:
> 
>>Kay Schluehr wrote:
>>
>>>The documentation of the Python console behaviour is not correct
>>>anymore for Python 2.4.1. At least for the Win2K system I'm working on
>>>'Ctrl-Z' does not shut down the console but 'Ctrl-D' etc.
>>>
>>>The Python interpreter tells me instead:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>quit
>>>
>>>'Use Ctrl-Z plus Return to exit.'
>>>
>>>Nah, 'Ctrl-Z' is now undo :-)
>>
>>Are you really using the console, started with the "Command Prompt" icon
>>from the Start Menu (or some equivalent)?
>>And are you sure you haven't
>>installed something else that magically changed the behaviour of Ctrl-Z?
>>
>>(I get the documented behaviour with Python 2.4.1, under Win XP.)
>>
>>-Peter
> 
> 
> Well, Peter, I indeed changed the system magically but yet it was not
> Windows, but Python! In my description I told You that I installed
> IPython and IPython requires the readline package. If I rename the
> readline package ( e.g. _readline ) in the site-packages directory the
> console behaves as expected. Otherwise it shows the termination
> behaviour of IPython namely it shuts down with Ctrl-D.
> 
> It's really sucking...
> 
> Kay
> 

It's readline that sucks. Python's behaviour has *NOT* changed.