[IPython-user] readline woes on win32

[Fernando Perez]

John Hunter wrote:
> I am trying t get ipython on windows XP working (actually helping
> someone over the phone).  I sent them a zip file with 

[...]

> And I had him open up a shell and do import readline / dir(readline) and 
> there were only a few symbols (like __name__ and __file__ but not
> set_completer).
> 
> Here is where it gets interesting.  When on the same machine ipython
> is run as Administrator, it works, and when they do the import / dir
> scenario above, the get all the symbols

Is this something that ipython can fix?  I have no idea how the Administrator 
thing has an effect on the loaded symbols.  Under *nix, if you get read access 
to the files you get all the symbols, otherwise you simply can't get to the 
files at all.  I'm sorry, but this is _way_ beyond my primitive win32 
understanding.

If you find anything I need to change in ipython to help with this in the 
future, please let me know.

best,

f