Baffled by readline module

[2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE at potatochowder.com]

On 2023-03-09 at 19:11:56 -0800,
Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2023-03-10, 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE at potatochowder.com <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE at potatochowder.com> wrote:

> If you run this application from the command line, you get command
> recall and editing when entering strings at the "cmd:" prompt?
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> while True:
>     try:
>         line = input('cmd: ')
>     except EOFError:
>         print()
>         break
>     print('You entered "%s"' % line)

In my case, no.