On 2008-02-02, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> En Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:31:06 -0200, Ross Ridge
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
>
>> If you're using the offficial Win32 port of Python than you
>> probably want to use the Cygwin version because Win32 version
>> doesn't support readline anyways.
>
> I don't understand the comment. Most of the readline
> functionality is already present on Windows XP (command
> history, up/down arrows, edit entry with left/right arrows,
> choose entry from list, autocompletion, separate buffers for
> each program...). On earlier versions you only had to load
> doskey.exe (or doskey.com) at startup, and the command had
> existed from jurasic age... That Python on Windows doesn't
> support specifically the GNU readline utility is irrelevant.
Until you try to run Python inside something other than the
Windows console.
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