[Pythonmac-SIG] Readline

[Ken Brooks]

Finally choosing to find the time, I installed MacPython 2.4.1.  But now I need documentation, and Google was not helpful.  What keystrokes have new meanings in the MacPython interactive window as a result of having readline?

Ken

At 9:55 AM -0800 1/17/06, Christopher Barker wrote:
>Ken Brooks wrote:
>>Still nothing changes!  So how does the debug loop work?  How can I
>>reload a module short of relaunching the environment??
>  ^^^^^^
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>You've just inadvertently answered your own question. That's what we mean when we say "Python fits your brain":
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>>>> reload(foo)
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>Python caches modules so that if one module is imported in ten different places, it doesn't reload them each time. To force a reload you use, appropriately enough, the reload function.
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>>2. I really wish for the "doskey" feature that lets you easily
>>retrieve and edit a line previously typed to the interactive
>>interpreter.  Does it exist here?
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>Yup. It's called readline. Apple doesn't ship it with OS-X, because it's licensed under the GPL, but you can install in separately, or you can install a new version of python that has it.
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>See:
>http://undefined.org/python/
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>for a newer Python, and:
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>http://www.pythonmac.org/packages/
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>For an assortment of add-on packages
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>There is a readline for th python 2.3 that came with OS-X 10.4 there. It may work with 10.4 also, if you install "TigerPython23Compat" from that page also.
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>All that being said, you might want to try one of the fancier python shells for interactive use, like ipython. Or, just write your entire script in a file (or multiple files) and restart python each time. It's rare that something take that long to run that re-starting is a problem. You can start it with:
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>$ python -i MyScript.py
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>and you'll get the interpreter prompt when it's done running.
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>-Chris
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