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readline under ms windows

First of all thanks for the Python. I think it's the most beautiful scripting language for today.

Actually I'm a Linux user, and believe, that under Linux I won't have such problem, but for a while Linux is inaccessible for me.

I'm writing little console application, and it would be great to have auto-completion feature. As I understood it could be made through readline module functions, but there is no readline under MS.

What can you suggest? (migration on linux isn't an option %)

Try asking on python-list@python.org or help@python.org.

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2026-02-14 16:06