Kay Schluehr wrote: > > Peter Hansen schrieb: > >>Kay Schluehr wrote: >> >>>The documentation of the Python console behaviour is not correct >>>anymore for Python 2.4.1. At least for the Win2K system I'm working on >>>'Ctrl-Z' does not shut down the console but 'Ctrl-D' etc. >>> >>>The Python interpreter tells me instead: >>> >>> >>> >>>>>>quit >>> >>>'Use Ctrl-Z plus Return to exit.' >>> >>>Nah, 'Ctrl-Z' is now undo :-) >> >>Are you really using the console, started with the "Command Prompt" icon >>from the Start Menu (or some equivalent)? >>And are you sure you haven't >>installed something else that magically changed the behaviour of Ctrl-Z? >> >>(I get the documented behaviour with Python 2.4.1, under Win XP.) >> >>-Peter > > > Well, Peter, I indeed changed the system magically but yet it was not > Windows, but Python! In my description I told You that I installed > IPython and IPython requires the readline package. If I rename the > readline package ( e.g. _readline ) in the site-packages directory the > console behaves as expected. Otherwise it shows the termination > behaviour of IPython namely it shuts down with Ctrl-D. > > It's really sucking... > > Kay >
It's readline that sucks. Python's behaviour has *NOT* changed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
