diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/lib/libreadline.tex')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libreadline.tex | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libreadline.tex b/Doc/lib/libreadline.tex index ac8e23f08c..dec37b67ea 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libreadline.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libreadline.tex @@ -7,10 +7,13 @@ \modulesynopsis{GNU readline support for Python.} -The \module{readline} module defines a number of functions used either -directly or from the \refmodule{rlcompleter} module to facilitate -completion and history file read and write from the Python -interpreter. +The \module{readline} module defines a number of functions to +facilitate completion and reading/writing of history files from the +Python interpreter. This module can be used directly or via the +\refmodule{rlcompleter} module. Settings made using +this module affect the behaviour of both the interpreter's interactive prompt +and the prompts offered by the \function{raw_input()} and \function{input()} +built-in functions. The \module{readline} module defines the following functions: |