[Pythonmac-SIG] Python 2.3 on OS X with readline

[Just van Rossum]

Mark Rowe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I make a habit of running a CVS version of Python for testing
> purposes. Recently I noticed that readline support has stopped
> functioning in my compiled versions.  A little digging has shown that
> the readline module is being compiled and installed, and that the
> interpreter is importing it on startup.  The problem appears to be
> that the readline module (Modules/readline.c) is using its own local
> copy of the PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer variable instead of the one
> defined in Parser/myreadline.c .  I am unsure what has caused this to
> happen.

I just saw that, too, and found the (recent) change that caused it. I've
posted a note to the committer and the python checkins list.

Just