Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> What does "the builtin readline support" refer to here? > Presumably not GNU Readline? That's referring to the readline(ish) support that's built into the console host for ReadFile() and ReadConsole() calls when the input stream is in line-input mode. I've never seen the console developers speak positively of this feature on their GitHub repo. They've suggested the addition of a native readline API on the client side, like PowerShell's PSReadLine module provides. But who knows when/if that would be released. Python has the third-party pyreadline module, but it's no longer actively developed. To bring pyreadline into the standard library would be a non-trivial task. OTOH, I assume if Microsoft provided an official readline API, which does all the heavy lifting, that Python could support it in the readline extension module, if the API is basically compatible with libreadline/libedit. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue45870> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
