Using gnu readline in my own python program?

[sboyle55]

Hi...I'm a newbie to python, and very confused. I'm writing a simple
program and want the user to be able to edit a line that I display
using the full gnu readline capabilitites. (For example, control+a to
go to the beginning of the line.)

Then I want to be able to read the line after it's been edited...

I know that with perl I would do this with some variation on
term::readline.

I've looked at the readline and code packages under Python but I can't
make heads or tails of them. The readline example in the docs is way
over my head.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Thomas Lotze]

sboyle55 wrote:

Hi...I'm a newbie to python, and very confused. I'm writing a simple
program and want the user to be able to edit a line that I display using
the full gnu readline capabilitites. (For example, control+a to go to the
beginning of the line.)

Then I want to be able to read the line after it's been edited...

Probably the built-in function raw_input already does what you want. It
uses readline if available.

--
Thomas

[sboyle55]

raw_input is an excellent suggestion, and almost exactly what I want.

But, I want to give the user a string to edit, not have them start from
scratch inputting a string.

Any other ideas?

[Thomas Lotze]

sboyle55 wrote:

raw_input is an excellent suggestion, and almost exactly what I want.

But, I want to give the user a string to edit, not have them start from
scratch inputting a string.

<http://svn.thomas-lotze.de/PyASDF/pyasdf/cli.py>

Take a look at the fancy_input function.

--
Thomas