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I'm at my wit's end trying to enable readline support for ActivePython 2.5.0 in OSX. For past versions, it was simply a matter of compiling readline and moving the readline.so file to the appropriate python directory. For 2.5.0, this no longer works. My freshly-compiled version is not even recognized -- no error messages in the console, nothing -- and moving the file from my 2.4.3 installation results in all sorts of warnings.

Has anyone gotten this to work? I understand the GPL issues related to not having readline available by default, but its crazy for users to have to go through this voodoo in order to get a usable command line experience.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.