[IPython-user] ipython windows

[Eric Zollars]

My readline directory:

NPyReadline.py
__init__.py
keysyms.py
wingdbstub.py
PyReadline.py
Console.py
...and the corresponding .pyo and .pyc files.
Does this look right?

Eric


Fernando Perez wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Eric Zollars wrote:
> 
>> I uninstalled ipython and readline.  Since I had allowed readline to 
>> overwrite the previous (Enthought) readline this left me with an empty 
>> readline folder in site-packages.  Reinstalled readline-1.12
>>
>>  >>import readline
>>  >>dir(readline)
>> ['PyReadline','__builtins__','__doc__','__file__','__none__','__path__']
>>  >>print readline.__file__
>> C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\readline\__init__.pyc
>>
>> So obviously I am not getting the expected result but I do not know why.
>>
>> Eric
> 
> 
>>
>> Fernando.Perez at colorado.edu wrote:
> 
> 
>>> The output I get is:
>>>
>>> ['CTRL', 'Console', 'GetOutputFile', 'PyReadline', 'Readline', 
>>> '__all__', '__bui
>>> ltins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__path__', 
>>> 'add_history', 'c32', '
>>> commonprefix', 'get_begidx', 'get_completer', 'get_completer_delims', 
>>> 'get_endid
>>> x', 'get_history_length', 'get_line_buffer', 'glob', 'insert_text', 
>>> 'key_text_to
>>> _keyinfo', 'keysyms', 'log', 'math', 'operator', 'os', 
>>> 'parse_and_bind', 'quote_
>>> char', 're', 'read_history_file', 'read_init_file', 'rl', 
>>> 'set_completer', 'set_
>>> completer_delims', 'set_history_length', 'set_pre_input_hook', 
>>> 'set_startup_hook
>>> ', 'string', 'sys', 'traceback', 'write_history_file']
> 
> 
> well, it's quite strange: you seem to be getting an _incomplete_ 
> readline import.  You may want to look inside the readline directory and 
> see if the code looks OK, and/or put a few print statements inside 
> there, to see why it's not building a complete module.
> 
> Check for issues with ctypes imports inside readline and too-eager 
> try/except blocks which may be trapping an error and silencing it.
> 
> Very strange.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> f
>