Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!rt.uk.eu.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.nosignal.org!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:: [': 0.03; 'context': 0.05; 'cpython': 0.05; 'modify': 0.05; 'function,': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'repl': 0.09; 'solution,': 0.09; 'underlying': 0.09; 'url:github': 0.09; 'read.': 0.13; 'language': 0.14; 'kern': 0.16; 'oct': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'troll': 0.16; 'string': 0.17; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'module,': 0.17; '>>>': 0.18; 'subject:] ': 0.19; 'python?': 0.20; 'trying': 0.21; 'combination': 0.22; 'interpret': 0.22; 'command': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'lines': 0.28; "d'aprano": 0.29; 'readline': 0.29; 'steven': 0.29; "i'm": 0.29; 'knows': 0.30; 'function': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; '+0200,': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'along': 0.35; 'robert': 0.35; 'pm,': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'execute': 0.37; 'does': 0.37; 'why': 0.37; 'rather': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'where': 0.40; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'world': 0.63; 'our': 0.65; 'of:': 0.65; 'believe': 0.69; 'hoping': 0.72; 'confusing': 0.84; 'eco': 0.84; 'otten': 0.84; 'terrible': 0.84; 'source?': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Robert Kern Subject: Re: [on topic] Re: readline trick needed Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:20:24 +0100 References: <50796ce5$0$6574$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <507d44a9$0$6599$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.1.240.227 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: <507d44a9$0$6599$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 39 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1350390037 news.xs4all.nl 6933 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:58835 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:31394 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