[on topic] Re: readline trick needed

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:30:01 +0200, Peter Otten wrote:

> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
>> I'm working with the readline module, and I'm trying to set a key
>> combination to process the current command line by calling a known
>> function, *and* enter the command line.
>> 
>> Something along the lines of:
>> 
>> * execute function spam() in some context where it can access
>>   the current command line as a string
>> * enter the command line
>> 
>> Function spam() may or may not modify the command line.
> 
>> (P.S. I'm aware of IPython, I want to get this working in the standard
>> CPython interpreter.)
> 
> If IPython does what you want why don't you have a look at the source?

Well, I was hoping for a pure Python solution, rather than having to 
troll through who knows how many thousands of lines of code in a language 
I can barely read.


> Anyway, here's what I came up with (no warranties as it was all
> trial-and- error):
> 
> $ cat readline_callback.py
> import ctypes

Ah, ctypes.

Well, I guess I have some interesting study ahead of me, to make head or 
tail of your solution. Thank you!



-- 
Steven