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author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-04-16 00:30:00 (GMT) |
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committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-04-16 00:30:00 (GMT) |
commit | 1b28088fd35938cae197fbdf673aac995ecb1ab5 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst index 4df7368..5c23ad7 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst @@ -35,15 +35,14 @@ Windows) at the primary prompt causes the interpreter to exit with a zero exit status. If that doesn't work, you can exit the interpreter by typing the following command: ``quit()``. -The interpreter's line-editing features usually aren't very sophisticated. On -Unix, whoever installed the interpreter may have enabled support for the GNU -readline library, which adds more elaborate interactive editing and history -features. Perhaps the quickest check to see whether command line editing is -supported is typing Control-P to the first Python prompt you get. If it beeps, -you have command line editing; see Appendix :ref:`tut-interacting` for an -introduction to the keys. If nothing appears to happen, or if ``^P`` is echoed, -command line editing isn't available; you'll only be able to use backspace to -remove characters from the current line. +The interpreter's line-editing features include interactive editing, history +substitution and code completion on systems that support readline. Perhaps the +quickest check to see whether command line editing is supported is typing +Control-P to the first Python prompt you get. If it beeps, you have command +line editing; see Appendix :ref:`tut-interacting` for an introduction to the +keys. If nothing appears to happen, or if ``^P`` is echoed, command line +editing isn't available; you'll only be able to use backspace to remove +characters from the current line. The interpreter operates somewhat like the Unix shell: when called with standard input connected to a tty device, it reads and executes commands interactively; |