[Pythonmac-SIG] Extensions for static versus frame

[Jack Jansen]

On Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 07:02 , Chris Barker wrote:

> Jack Jansen wrote:
>
>> By chance I was thinking of that while cycling in. I think we need a
>> "Run Interactive Interpreter" command in the launcher. We may need two,
>> even: one using python and one using pythonw.
>>
>> Note that, as Just pointed out, we don't have to make this 
>> functionality
>> too obvious, the IDE should be the normal way to do interactive Python.
>
> Maybe not obvious, but not hard to find either. I very rarely use the
> IDE. I really like working in the interpreter (as long as it has
> readline)

But note that you do have to build your own interpreter if you want 
readline support: as far as I know the readline license is still 
contagious, so readline can't be included with the Mac{ho}Python binary 
distribution.
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