In article <4632a161-ed13-477c-a40a-2b606fda1...@a29g2000pra.googlegroups.com>, James Brady <james.colin.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I just upgraded Python from 2.5.2 up to 2.6.1 on my 10.5 Mac > (installed from the DMG here: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.1/), > and I'm having some problems with readline and rl_completer. > > I have PYTHONSTARTUP pointing to this file: > #!/usr/bin/env python > > try: > import readline > except ImportError: > print "Module readline not available." > else: > import rlcompleter > readline.parse_and_bind("bind ^I rl_complete") > > Which was working fine for tab completion in 2.5. Now, however, I > can't enter 'b' (lower case b) in interactive python shells - no > character appears.
Your startup file was set up for a Python (likely the Apple-supplied 2.5) that was built using the BSD editline library for readline. But the 2.6 python.org python was built with GNU readline which uses a different syntax. s/"bind ^I rl_complete"/"tab: complete"/ <http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html> -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
