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  r74970 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-09-20 16:18:15 +0200 (Sun, 20 Sep 2009) | 7 lines

  Issue 6877: this patch makes it possible to link the readline extension
  to the libedit emulation of the readline API on OSX 10.5 or later.

  This also adds a minimal testsuite for readline to check that the
  history manipuation functions have the same interface with both
  C libraries.
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@ -14,6 +14,17 @@ 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 programmaticly 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:
@ -166,7 +177,6 @@ The :mod:`readline` module defines the following functions:
Append a line to the history buffer, as if it was the last line typed.
.. seealso::
Module :mod:`rlcompleter`