On Mac OS X I can’t enter a pound sterling sign (£) into the Python interactive shell. * Mac OS X 10.5.5 * Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 19:35:17) * European keyboard (£ is shift-3) When I type shift-3 in the Python interactive shell, I seem to invoke the previous word function, i.e. the cursor will move to the start of the l...
The title is a bit more specific than my actual goal: I have a command-line program which uses GNU Readline, primarily for command history (i.e. retrieving previous commands using up-arrow) and some other niceties. Right now the program's output appears interspersed with the user's input, which sometimes is OK but the output is asynchr...
I use editline library in my program, for user commands input in shell. But becides shell, program have a gui interface, so I need to run editline's readline() function in separate thread, because it blocks until Enter pressed. Is there a way to use readline() function without blocking, so I could avoid separate thread usage? ...