[Pythonmac-SIG] Extensions for static versus frame

[Bob Ippolito]

Maybe someone should write a readline-like interface using curses or 
libedit ?
(
   
http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/1.2/source/apsl/Libcurses-23.
tar.gz
   
http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/1.2/source/apsl/Libedit-18.
tar.gz
)

Both of these should be BSD.  Though it's a bit old, there's apparently 
also a drop-in replacement for the readline module that uses libedit.
(
   
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/contrib-09-Dec-1999/Misc/editline.README
)

I'd really hate to not have readline-like functionality because of a 
silly licensing issue.

-bob



On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 04:22 AM, Jack Jansen wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 07:02 , Chris Barker wrote:
>
>> Jack Jansen wrote:
>>
>>> By chance I was thinking of that while cycling in. I think we need a
>>> "Run Interactive Interpreter" command in the launcher. We may need 
>>> two,
>>> even: one using python and one using pythonw.
>>>
>>> Note that, as Just pointed out, we don't have to make this 
>>> functionality
>>> too obvious, the IDE should be the normal way to do interactive 
>>> Python.
>>
>> Maybe not obvious, but not hard to find either. I very rarely use the
>> IDE. I really like working in the interpreter (as long as it has
>> readline)
>
> But note that you do have to build your own interpreter if you want 
> readline support: as far as I know the readline license is still 
> contagious, so readline can't be included with the Mac{ho}Python binary 
> distribution.
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