so i noticed that on my gentoo box, python's readline support for tab completes and such is enabled by default. i googled around for how to achieve this (my other non-gentoo boxes doesn't have this by default), and everything says i need to set a script that performs the readline importing and such under a PYTHONSTARTUP variable. looking around in /etc/* or my home dirs doesn't really indicate that there's a default startup script on my gentoo box, so i'm guessing it's a compile time option for the python install (or a patch).
could the python maintainer or someone in the know clue me in as to how readline history and such is achieved by default on gentoo?
gentoo's python interactive defaults
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gentoo's python interactive defaults
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