[Pythonmac-SIG] readline support for OS X Leopard

[Nicholas Riley]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 08:02:09AM -0500, skip at pobox.com wrote:
> Just install GNU readline and point the build system at it.  For example, I
> have MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/) installed in /opt/local.  GNU
> readline is installed there, and my readline module is linked against that:

IPython brokenness (specifically autoindent and bizarre behavior when
replacing the line, e.g. with ^U) started bothering me enough that I
did this:

% otool -L /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/readline.so 
/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/readline.so:
	/opt/local/lib/libreadline.5.2.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.2.0)
	/opt/local/lib/libncurses.5.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.0.0)
	/usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 111.0.0)

but I can't figure out how to get this version of readline to replace
the bundled one.  I put readline.so into ipython-0.8.1-py2.5.egg,
which works for IPython, but is there a nicer way to do so in general
than simply overwriting it in
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload?

Thanks,

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