On Jun 8, 7:31 pm, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > Paul Moore wrote: > > I run Python on Windows. I have the (pure Python) pyreadline package > > installed for (occasional) use by IPython. However, when I use the > > normal Python interactive prompt, the mere fact that the readline > > module exists means that it gets used. > > I used to get round this by installing pyreadline within the > iPython package, so it only appeared to exist from that > app's POV.
Interesting approach - I hadn't thought of that. I might give that a try. Nevertheless, if it isn't possible to disable readline, I may just raise a bug report as well... Paul. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list