[Twisted-Python] Re: readline-like behavior inside Twisted (was Re: Re: Synchronization techniques)

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:33:26 +0000 (UTC), Michael Hudson <micahel at gmail.com> wrote:
>Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun <at> divmod.com> writes:
>
>> I haven't looked at pyreadline before, although I did take a look at UNC a
>> long time ago.  Taking a quick look at the code, it looks like converting
>> pyreadline to be Twisted friendly may be doable.
>
>This isn't really a followup, but it seems worthwhile to mention that GNU
>readline itself has a callback interface (rl_callback_read_char) that would be
>suitable for using with Twisted.  You'd have to use ctypes or something to get
>to it, but it's there.

Good point, I'd forgotten about that API.

Jean-Paul