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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-10-06 08:56:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-10-06 08:56:53 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/readline.rst b/Doc/library/readline.rst index abb196d..e99d317 100644 --- a/Doc/library/readline.rst +++ b/Doc/library/readline.rst @@ -15,6 +15,16 @@ made using this module affect the behaviour of both the interpreter's interactive prompt and the prompts offered by the built-in :func:`input` function. +.. note:: + + On MacOS X the :mod:`readline` module can be implemented using + the ``libedit`` library instead of GNU readline. + + The configuration file for ``libedit`` is different from that + of GNU readline. If you programmatically load configuration strings + you can check for the text "libedit" in :const:`readline.__doc__` + to differentiate between GNU readline and libedit. + The :mod:`readline` module defines the following functions: |