Copyright © 2001, Chris Gonnerman chris.gonnerman@newcenturycomputers.net

_rlsetup.c -- Python Readline Installer
Copyright (c) 1999 by Secret Labs AB.
Copyright (c) 1999 by Fredrik Lundh.

Changes:

• Version 1.7 (December 3, 2005) This new version contains completer support code by Jürgen Hermann. Thanks! Now if I just had some documentation for this...
• Version 1.6 (March 3, 2004) Finally, a 2.3 compatible version! This version will not work with Python versions before 2.3. Many thanks to Andre Alves who provided the bugfix for the prompt.
• Version 1.5c (date mislaid) Includes more minor bugfixes.
• Version 1.5b (January 24, 2002) Includes minor bugfixes and a 2.2 binary courtesy of Alex Martelli.
• Version 1.5 (October 10, 2001) Includes updates from Alex Martelli providing additional support for "traditional" GNU readline functionality. This version does not support versions of Python before 2.0.
• Version 1.4 (June 4, 2001) Adds the history file requested by Alex Martelli.
• Version 1.3 (June 2, 2001) Corrects another cosmetic bug, and includes a DistUtils installer and Python 2.1 binary courtesy of Alex Martelli.
• Version 1.2 (May 5, 2001) Fixes the site.py error message and corrects a cosmetic bug.
• Version 1.1 (May 1, 2001) Uses a side-scrolling feature to avoid the previous problems with running past the right edge of the screen.
• Version 1.0 (April 28, 2001) First public release.

This software enables line editing and (temporary) history for Python on Windows. _rlsetup.c is ripped painfully from Fredrik Lundh's _wincon.c source code, and so bears his copyright (and Secret Labs). However, blame me if it doesn't work for you (but of course, you accept all responsibility for this software as a condition for using it).

This package uses the following environment variables:

PYHISTFILE contains the name of the history file (default is sys.prefix + "\\pyhist.txt").

PYHISTMAX is the maximum number of history lines to keep (both in core and on disk).

Binary installers are available for Python 2.0 through 2.4. The source archive includes a distutils setup.py installer if you want/need to build your own.