Zvezdan Petkovic <zvez...@zope.com> added the comment: > It would also be nice if one could programmaticly detect if readline > is linked to libedit
There's this rl_library_version constant defined in editline/readline C libraries that the attached patch uses. Perhaps, if we can expose its value from the Python readline module, one could check whether the value startswith("EditLine wrapper") in ipython and similar programs. Regarding your comment about editline being broken on Leopard: The patch worked just fine for me and other people who used it in my company. We used line editing and history in interactive interpreter with both Python 2.4 and Python 2.6 on Leopard. One person used it with Python 2.4 and ipython. He did not have a readline functionality until he compiled with the patch. After applying the patch the line editing, history and TAB completion worked for him in ipython. He's now running Snow Leopard so we couldn't check one more time. Perhaps you meant it was broken on Tiger (10.4; Darwin 8). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6877> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com