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#20874: update tutorial wording: sophisticated line editing is now standard. 

Patch by Rafael Mejia.
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R David Murray 2014-04-15 20:25:18 -04:00
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@ -35,10 +35,9 @@ Windows) at the primary prompt causes the interpreter to exit with a zero exit
status. If that doesn't work, you can exit the interpreter by typing the
following command: ``quit()``.
The interpreter's line-editing features usually aren't very sophisticated. On
Unix, whoever installed the interpreter may have enabled support for the GNU
readline library, which adds more elaborate interactive editing and history
features. Perhaps the quickest check to see whether command line editing is
The interpreter's line-editing features include interactive editing, history
substitution and code completion on systems that support readline.
Perhaps the quickest check to see whether command line editing is
supported is typing Control-P to the first Python prompt you get. If it beeps,
you have command line editing; see Appendix :ref:`tut-interacting` for an
introduction to the keys. If nothing appears to happen, or if ``^P`` is echoed,