[IPython-user] resolved an issue with readline and MacPython-2.4.3

[Steve Lianoglou]

Howdy,

Another ... easier(?) ... more supported (?) ... perhaps, just plain  
"other" option is to install the python and readline combo via  
DarwinPorts (http://darwinports.org/). The readline package auto-d/ 
l's and applies the correct patches before install.

I've been averse to using things like ports or fink for sometime  
because I always liked to roll my own with that sort of stuff, but it  
has really saved me a lot of time getting a lot of different things  
working together, and darwinports do a pretty good job about keeping  
their stuff up to date.

-steve

On Aug 11, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:

> Hey Darren,
>
> On 8/11/06, Darren Dale <dd55 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>> I have been trying to get a new user set up to use python on a mac  
>> (OS X
>> 10.4). We ran into some trouble running ipython, where the  
>> interactive
>> interpreter would lock up, and then exit with a Bus Error. We  
>> could reproduce
>> the problem by typing part of a command, and then pressing the up/ 
>> down arrow
>> keys.
>>
>> The problem is with MacPython-2.4.3, which comes with a statically  
>> linked
>> readline package that was built without the necessary patches.  
>> This website
>> gave us the information we needed to solve the problem:
>> http://www.kompato.com/?p=616
>
> many thanks for the details.  I'd actually recently seen the problem
> on a colleague's new MacBook.  The bug can be easily produced in a
> plain python shell (no ipython) by loading and configuring readline a
> little.  I hope the official MacPython team fixes things soon, as this
> can be annoying and time-consuming to fix, and it kind of makes
> ipython useless on OSX.
>
> Regards,
>
> f
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