Readline module?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <8m3t1n$p0h$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <dogboy777 at my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>I'd like to use the readline module in a python script running on Linux.
> Our sys admin just updated our version of Python to 1.5.2, but the
>readline module isn't there.  What's particularly wierd is that
>rlcomplete _is_ there:

The problem is that readline isn't a "module" in the sense of being a
Python script.  It's an executable extension and needs to be compiled.
Have your sysadmin look in the documentation on building Python with
readline enabled.
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