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Re: [on topic] Re: readline trick needed

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On 10/16/12 12:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:30:01 +0200, Peter Otten wrote:
>
>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>>> I'm working with the readline module, and I'm trying to set a key
>>> combination to process the current command line by calling a known
>>> function, *and* enter the command line.
>>>
>>> Something along the lines of:
>>>
>>> * execute function spam() in some context where it can access
>>>    the current command line as a string
>>> * enter the command line
>>>
>>> Function spam() may or may not modify the command line.
>>
>>> (P.S. I'm aware of IPython, I want to get this working in the standard
>>> CPython interpreter.)
>>
>> If IPython does what you want why don't you have a look at the source?
>
> Well, I was hoping for a pure Python solution, rather than having to
> troll through who knows how many thousands of lines of code in a language
> I can barely read.

Are you confusing IPython, the pure Python REPL for CPython, for IronPython, the 
C# implementation of Python?

   https://github.com/ipython/ipython

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco

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readline trick needed Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-13 13:30 +0000
  Re: readline trick needed Etienne Robillard <animelovin@gmail.com> - 2012-10-13 09:44 -0400
  Re: readline trick needed Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-10-14 00:47 +1100
  Re: readline trick needed Etienne Robillard <animelovin@gmail.com> - 2012-10-13 09:58 -0400
  Re: readline trick needed Roel Schroeven <roel@roelschroeven.net> - 2012-10-13 23:14 +0200
  Re: readline trick needed Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-10-14 08:44 +1100
  Re: readline trick needed Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-10-13 23:13 +0100
  Re: readline trick needed Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-10-14 09:41 +1100
  Re: readline trick needed Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-10-13 23:52 +0100
  Re: readline trick needed Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-10-14 01:32 +0100
  [on topic] Re: readline trick needed Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-10-16 10:30 +0200
    Re: [on topic] Re: readline trick needed Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-16 11:27 +0000
      Re: [on topic] Re: readline trick needed Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2012-10-16 13:20 +0100
        Re: [on topic] Re: readline trick needed Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-16 12:52 +0000
      Re: [on topic] Re: readline trick needed Dwight Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2012-10-16 10:14 -0400
      [off topic], was Re: [on topic] Re: readline trick needed Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-10-16 16:36 +0200
      Re: [off topic], was Re: [on topic] Re: readline trick needed Dwight Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2012-10-16 11:14 -0400
  Re: [on topic] Re: readline trick needed Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2012-10-16 01:50 -0700
  Re: [on topic] Re: readline trick needed Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-10-16 12:20 +0200
  Re: [on topic] Re: readline trick needed Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2012-10-16 13:44 -0700

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