10.4: Add readline support to Tiger's python

Jan 12, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

For licensing reasons, Python on OS X comes without readline support (libreadline is GPL). Unfortunatley, this earlier hint no longer works in Tiger.

There is, however, a standalone readline distutils package made by Bill Bumgarner. I have slightly adapted it [click to download] to work either with a pre-installed readline from Fink, or with the included readline-5.1 without installing it. Hope this helps!

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one.]

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