The documentation of the Python readline
module says "Availability: Unix". However, it doesn't appear to be available on OS X, although other modules marked as Unix are available. Here is what I'm using:
$ uname -a Darwin greg.local 8.11.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.1: Wed Oct 10 18:23:28 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.25.20~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386 $ which python /usr/bin/python $ python Python 2.3.5 (#1, Nov 26 2007, 09:16:55) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363) (+4864187)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import readline Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named readline >>>
I have also installed Python 2.5 through MacPorts but readline
is not available there either.
What can I do to provide readline
functionality for Python's raw_input()
function on OS X?
Try rlwrap
. It should work with any version of python and in general any shell.
Install via brew install rlwrap
on Mac OS X
usage as rlwrap python
. It stores history as well.
Have you tried to install the py-readline
(or py25-readline
for Python 2.5) port?
Also, in the snippet above, you are NOT using the MacPort python, but rather the Apple Python.
The MacPort version should be located in the /opt/local
directory structure. You should check your path.
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