New submission from Zvezdan Petkovic <zvez...@zope.com>:
The attached patch enables compilation and use of the readline module on
Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
It utilizes the native editline library (used for emulation of the
readline library on Mac).
I used the patch for almost two years already with Python 2.4 and since
December 2008 with Python 2.6. The only difference is that Python 2.4
did not need the setup.py changes.
The patch is written in such a way that it does *not* affect the
compilation on systems that use GNU readline library (e.g., Linux).
However, I don't have access to any other system that uses editline
emulation of readline library besides Mac. I believe it should work the
same but some testing would be welcome if anyone is aware of such a
system (NetBSD?).
With the readline module compiled in, it is enough to put in .editrc
python:bind -v
and one gets a vi emulation in the python interactive interpreter.
You can also try it directly from the shell:
>>> import readline
>>> readline.parse_and_bind("bind -v")
>>> # use editing features to change the lines above to
>>> import rlcompleter
>>> readline.parse_and_bind("bind ^I rl_complete")
>>> # now TAB offers the completions
It would be nice if we could get this included into Python-2.6.3
release.
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components: Build
files: readline-trunk.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 92480
nosy: zvezdan
severity: normal
status: open
title: enable compilation of readline module on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
type: compile error
versions: Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python
3.1, Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14871/readline-trunk.patch
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