Using gnu readline in my own python program?

[sboyle55]

Hi...I'm a newbie to python, and very confused.  I'm writing a simple
program and want the user to be able to edit a line that I display
using the full gnu readline capabilitites.  (For example, control+a to
go to the beginning of the line.)

Then I want to be able to read the line after it's been edited...

I know that with perl I would do this with some variation on
term::readline.

I've looked at the readline and code packages under Python but I can't
make heads or tails of them.  The readline example in the docs is way
over my head.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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Re: Using gnu readline in my own python program?

[sboyle55]

raw_input is an excellent suggestion, and almost exactly what I want.

But, I want to give the user a string to edit, not have them start from
scratch inputting a string.

Any other ideas?

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Impersonating other broswers...

[sboyle55]

So I wrote a quick python program (my first ever) that needs to
download pages off the web.

I'm using urlopen, and it works fine.  But I'd like to be able to
change my browser string from "Python-urllib/1.15" to instead
impersonate Internet Explorer.

I know this can be done very easily with Perl, so I'm assuming it's
also easy in Python.  How do I do it?

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