[Python-Dev] Building on OS X 10.4 fails

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 17, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Thomas Heller wrote:

> Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I doing
> something wrong?

Mac OS X doesn't ship with readline.  It ships with BSD libedit  
symlinked to readline.  Not good enough for Python.  You need a third  
party copy.

I made an egg for it a while ago: http://python.org/pypi/readline

-bob