Can you also compile readline module in python ?

Is anyone working on this? I tried to get this working by compiling with the NDK as described in the wiki. It requires libncurses.a, which I eventually figured out using this blog for guidelines: http://credentiality2.blogspot.com/2010/08/compile-ncurses-for-android.html

Then there was an issue not being about to find setpwent or getpwent. I brazenly deleted the offending code and eventually got an egg. Unfortunately, it looks like something is wrong with the library I built with NDK. When I "import readline" I get: ImportError: Cannot load library: load_segments[928]: 600 failed to map segment from 'readline.so' @

At this point I'm pretty well stuck, maybe someone else will know what to do.

Added to Python3 Will be looking to backport to Python2 in the next few weeks.

Yay, my fingers are so tired

I would actually rather have 2.6 with readline than 2.7 without it. Does that make sense?

I tried to compile readline 6.2.2 using third party library but it says import error cannot load library find library 1226 : 7498 readline.so failed to load previously.

any update for readline support on python 2.x?

I compiled libreadline.so and libhitory.so for Android using c4droid (not ndk!), and checked them with Python-ctypes, and they work. To compile readline, on Bionic, a patch is necessary for systems without setpwent, which I got from this bug report [1]. The shared object libraries are attached here as "rl-6.2_arm_linux_androideabi.tar", & the patch is also attached as "readline-6.2-complete.c.patch". Unfortunately I was not able to compile a working "readline.so" from the Python-readline-6.2.4.1 package; I always got "library not found"/"failed to load previously" errors. However, I am working on a pure (Python only) wrapper for the shared object libraries using Python-ctypes that is closely based on Python-readline. It is called "purereadline" [2] and is hosted on github. I hope when it is completed it will work or I'll be very bummed. FYI: I can't think of any reason that the Python-readline package shouldn't work except that I am too lazy to actually build Python for Andriod, and so have valid python.h and pyconfig.h files. It would be very nice if future "Python for Android" versions had a "dev" download that included the headers necessary to build extensions.

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2012-09/msg00001.html [2] https://github.com/mikofski/purereadline

See readline build Robbie did for Python 3, this should be easy to port on android-python27, unfortunately I have no time to do this right now but is in my todo. Let me know if you succeed and would like to commit your code in the project.

The pure-python readline code is on github, but it is still about 100 lines and some testing short of being ready.

http://poquitopicante.blogspot.com/2013/01/purereadline.html

Hai, Finally I compiled a working readline module for python2.7.3 The attached file is can be applied to original python2.7.3.tar.gz

But I only compiled python ,readline , and ncurses.So there are lot of modules which is un available .includes ctypes. Because I concentrated on readline.

I used gdb sever to debug python shared libs. It is a great tool.

I choose python2.7.3 because I couldnot get the source file which correspond to python_r16.zip available at Download section.This version contains almost all module except readline. Here I have only readline module.

So any one can post headers corresponding to python_r16.zip.

Sorry for my language.

Hai , This the reppo for python2.7.3 with readline support https://github.com/harish2704/android-python2.7.3

I finally got readline working for the KBOX environment port of Python 3.5.x thanks to the patch posted here plus a couple of post-configure hacks to the shlib/Makefile.

For reference purposes, the "issue" is being tracked here: http://bugs.python.org/issue23496. Once I figure out where or if to submit readline stuff, I'll post the link here as well