Sorry for a slightly off topic post to this list, but it is relevant in the grand scheme of things...
On Aug 19, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Jacob Rus wrote:
Actually, you should probably get the [universal python][1], instead of the one from Fink. It is most up-to-date, most optimized, and has the most testing of external packages, etc. (several of which are available from that same page). If you do get it, then AFAIK there is no reason to use pythonw, as it is a symlink to python.
Does that MacPython package still Seg Fault when navigating through a "prefixed" command history?
For instance, say you're in the python shell and you type:
matrix =
then hit up-arrow to get commands from your history that started with that "matrix =" prefix. When I would find one, then hit down arrow I'd get a seg fault. Maybe it happened when I didn't find a completion ... perhaps both, sorry, it's been a while.
After some googling, I found others had problems with it in their compiled pythons and the culprit was the readline package -- which needed to be patched. Installing python + readline via darwinports has worked out well for me so far.
Just curious if this is still (ever?) happening to those people using the MacPython package?
-steve