[Pythonmac-SIG] readline

[Nicholas Riley]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 08:07:16PM -0800, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
> On 11/30/02 7:46 PM, "Nicholas Riley" <njriley@uiuc.edu> wrote:
> > The important part is to add $(LOCALMODLIBS).  There might be a
> > simpler way to do this without reinstalling all of Python but I don't
> > know about it.
> 
> I'm afraid I don't have any Modules/Setup anywhere. I just have the default
> installation of python 2.2 in OS 10.2: I never installed it myself, and have
> no installation files or folders.

I misunderstood your last post when you talked about IDLE.  It
requires a framework build for the Aqua GUI, which isn't what Apple
ships.  Modules/Setup is a file in the Python source which you edit
to enable modules.

> Hmmm. What's Fink? (This seems to be rapidly spiraling out of all my fields
> of reference. I really am very new to Unix.) And there's that Modules/Setup
> again.

<http://fink.sf.net/>

> Is this the same readline as GNU readline?

Yes.

I'd recommend you just forget about building the readline module if
you don't want to replace the built-in Python 2.2... perhaps someone
with more experience can suggest if it's possible to build the
readline module separately and link it with the Apple-supplied Python.

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=Nicholas Riley <njriley@uiuc.edu> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
        Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
  Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign