Pure python readline - works on Python 3, forked from: https://github.com/pypy/pyrepl
This is pyrepl, a readline-a-like in Python. It requires python 2.7 (or newer) and features: * sane multi-line editing * history, with incremental search * completion, including displaying of available options * a fairly large subset of the readline emacs-mode keybindings (adding more is mostly just a matter of typing) * a liberal, Python-style, license * a new python top-level * no global variables, so you can run two or more independent readers without having their histories interfering. * no hogging of control -- it should be easy to integrate pyrepl into YOUR application's event loop. * generally speaking, a much more interactive experience than readline (it's a bit like a cross between readline and emacs's mini-buffer) * unicode support (given terminal support) There are probably still a few little bugs & misfeatures, but _I_ like it, and use it as my python top-level most of the time. To get a feel for it, just execute: $ python pythoni (One point that may confuse: because the arrow keys are used to move up and down in the command currently being edited, you need to use ^P and ^N to move through the history) If you like what you see, you can install it with the familiar $ python setup.py install which will also install the above "pythoni" script. Summary of 0.8.4: + python3 support + support for more readline hooks + backport various fixes from pypy + gracefully break on sys.stdout.close() Summary of 0.8.3: + First release from new home on bitbucket. + Various fixes to pyrepl.readline. + Allow pyrepl to run if unicodedata is unimportable. Summary of 0.8.2: + This is the same version which is distributed with PyPy 1.4, which uses it as its default interactive interpreter: - have the possibility of having a "CPython-like" prompt, with ">>>" as PS1 and "..." as PS2 - add the pyrepl.readline module, which exposes a subset of CPython's readline implemented on top of pyrepl + Add support for colored completions: see e.g. fancycomplete: http://bitbucket.org/antocuni/fancycompleter Summary of 0.8.1: + Fixes - in the area of unbound keys and unknown commands - in quoted-insert - in unicode support + make Reader and subclasses new-style classes - make the inheritance hierachy look like this Reader / \ HistoricalReader CompletingReader \ / PythonicReader Turns out I've been wanting new-style classes since before they existed! - needed to slightly change the way keymaps are built Summary of 0.8.0: + A whole bundle of things. - unicode support (although working out what encoding the terminal is using can be "tricky") - internal rearchitecting - probably a bunch of new bugs... + Development and web-presence moved to codespeak.net Summary of new stuff in 0.7.1: + A non-broken setup.py... Summary of new stuff in 0.7.0: + Moved to a package architecture. + Wrote a (very simple!) distutils setup.py script. + Changed the keyspec format to be more sensible. See the docstring in pyrepl/keymap.py for more information. + Portability fixes. + Various tortuous changes to use 2.2 features where possible but retaining 2.1 support (I hope; haven't got a 2.1 here to test with). + Jumping up and down on control-C now shouldn't dump you out of pyrepl (via a large hammer kind of approach). + Bug fixes, particularly in the history handling stuff. + reader.Reader has a new method, bind(), intended to be used by the user. + Changes to the init file handling. + Sundry code reorganization. Libraries built on top of pyrepl will probably require small modifications (but I'm not sure anyone has written any of these yet!). + A prototypical pygame console. -- see CHANGES for more details and older news