[Pythonmac-SIG] readline support in ActivePython

[Christopher Barker]

Forwarded note, in case anyone is interested.

Trey Smith wrote:

> I found some posts on Pythonmac-SIG where you guys were discussing how 
> to get readline support under ActivePython 2.4.2.  At this point I have 
> it working under ActivePython 2.4.3, and I thought you might like to 
> know what I did so it can be posted at pythonmac.org and/or the mailing 
> list.  (I'm not going to post it myself as I'm not involved in those 
> groups.)
> 
> Ok, here's what I did:
> 
> * Download the Python 2.4 source distribution from python.org
> * Compile it in the standard way with ./configure and make (no need to 
> 'make install')
> * Find the readline.so file that is produced (find . -name 
> readline.so)... it will be in the build/lib-something-or-other/ directory.
> * Copy readline.so to 
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ 
> 
> 
> That's it.  After I did this 'import readline' and the ipython shell 
> both worked.
> 
> Note I have seen some speculation that you can do the same thing with 
> the readline.so file generated by compiling the standard GNU readline 
> distribution.  This does not work.  When you do 'import readline', the 
> python dynamic loader complains, saying it's the wrong type of file.  
> I'm not python-savvy enough to know what the problem is, but anyway it 
> doesn't work.
> 
> I would be happy to send along the readline.so file I generated if it 
> would be helpful.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -Trey
> 

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