[Pythonmac-SIG] readline on OS X 10.4 on Intel?

[Simon Willison]

Hi,

I've just got my hands on a MacBook Pro, but the old trick for getting
readline running for Python no longer works:

$ python `python -c "import pimp; print pimp.__file__"` -i readline
Traceback (most recent call last):
... <snip> ...
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

Further investigation shows that the URL in question is:

http://www.python.org/packman/version-0.5/prod-2.3-darwin_apple-8.7.1-i386.plist

The files in http://www.python.org/packman/version-0.5/ haven't been
touched since April of last year.

What's the current recommended way of getting readline running with
the python 2.3.5 that comes with Intel macs?

Cheers,

Simon Willison