Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-04-06, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> [I swear I've asked this question before, but Google can't find >>> it.] >> >> My Google is better than yours then: >> >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-July/669582.html > > It certainly is. All I could come up with were tons of hits on > the file-object's readline. What I don't understand is > how/where the readline module is told what file descriptor it's > supposed to be reading from. Is that just implicit in the > "import" operation?
What I've gleaned from the source: On import it sets the PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer in Parser/myreadline.c. If both stdin and stdout are a tty (GNU) readline is invoked via this pointer. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
