Folks
I recently installed the java readline library to get good console
support on jython under Linux. I installed the latest version of the
library (version 0.6), and discovered that it needs the following change
to run.
--- org/python/util/ReadlineConsole.java Sat Dec 8 14:38:47 2001
+++ ../jython-2.1a3/org/python/util/ReadlineConsole.java Wed Nov 14 21:21:03 2001
@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@
}
public ReadlineConsole(PyObject locals, String filename) {
super(locals,filename);
+
+ // *** JohnD ***
+ // readline library now requires loading first
+ try {
+ Readline.load(ReadlineLibrary.GnuReadline);
+ } catch (Exception e) {
+ System.err.println("Exception loading GNU readline: " + e);
+ }
+
Readline.initReadline("jpython");
}
Cheers ........................ JohnD
John Dickson
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