On 2023-03-10, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: > On 10Mar2023 09:12, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>On 2023-03-10, Weatherby,Gerard <gweathe...@uchc.edu> wrote: >>> On our Linux systems, I can up-arrow to go back to prior commands >>> and use the left and right arrows to navigate a line. The >>> functionality may be provided internally by readline. I’ve never had >>> to dig into it because it meets my needs out of the box. >> >>Apparently the cmd.Cmd docs are wrong. It says: >> >> If the readline module is loaded, input will automatically >> inherit bash-like history-list editing (e.g. Control-P scrolls >> back to the last command, Control-N forward to the next one, >> Control-F moves the cursor to the right non-destructively, >> Control-B moves the cursor to the left non-destructively, etc.). >> >>On my Python 3.10.10 Linux system, cmd.Com itself is importing the >>readline module unconditionally when I call cmdloop(). There's no 'if' >>about it. > > I was wondering about that myself, whether this is an accident of > phrasing. It doesn't say "is imported", so maybe the author was thinking > "if readline's part of the install" here.
Ah, that never ocurred to me. I understood "loaded" to mean "imported" without giving it a second thought. It probably does mean supported. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
