In article <AANLkTimrz_=6qghqdqk3rh7hogocjjxzkgy4dcjf4...@mail.gmail.com>, Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kap...@case.edu> wrote: > As I stated above, py-readline is for if you're using Macports, which > is a package manager for Mac OS X.
... in which case you probably want: sudo port install py-readline > If you installed Python through > some other means, I'm not sure why you don't have readline installed > already, because it should be built with the rest of the Python > modules. For releases prior to Python 2.6 and Python 3.2, to build the Python readline module, you need to have installed a local version of the GNU readline library, a library which is not included in Mac OS X. Starting with Python 2.6 and with a deployment target of Mac OS X 10.5 or higher, the Python readline module will be automatically linked with the Apple-supplied BSD editline (libedit) library. P.S to Julien: Python 2.4 is *really* old now and is no longer supported by the Python developers. It probably won't build correctly on current OS X 10.6 without some help. Python 2.7.1 and Python 3.2 are the current releases. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
