The pyreadline3 package is based on the readline package by Gary Bishop. It is not a complete replacement for GNU readline. The pyreadline3 package is currently only for the win32 platform. The pyreadline3 package tries to improve the integration with the win32 platform by including such things as copy paste.

The pyreadline3 package installs as pyreadline3, you may want to add readline.py containing the line:

from pyreadline3 import *

• PyWin32, the win32 Python extensions from http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond.

• This in turn requires Tomas Heller's ctypes from http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes.