> I wouldn't want to live without readline, but some of the things it
> does call for the application of thumbscrews.
Indeed.
But I thought I fixed that in 2.3, by restoring the locale after
initializing GNU readline. Maybe the Mac IDE environment starts up in
a different locale? Would be typical for Mac...
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)