I'm trying to figure out how to use the gnu readline library so that when my program is prompting the user for input there is line editing and history support.
I've read and re-read the documentation for the "readline" module in the standard library and I still can't figure out how to use the module or even if the module is intended to do what I want. The example code all seems to be about on how to modify the behavior of an interactive Python interpreter session so you have things like auto-completion of Python identifiers. What I want to do is replace sys.stdin.readline() with something that will provide the user with line editing and history recall. In other languages, one uses the Gnu readline library to do that, but my reading of the Python library documentation is that's not what the Python readline module is for. Am I wrong? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! On the road, ZIPPY at is a pinhead without a visi.com purpose, but never without a POINT. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list