Editline is BSD's answer to GNU Readline. 4.4BSD-derived systems (e.g. {Free,Net,Open}BSD) appear to ship with libedit.a as a standard library. This python module (editline.c) is based on the python readline module by Guido van Rossum: It exports the same methods, and can be used as a drop-in replacement for the readline module. This is good for BSD users who do not wish to fetch/compile/install the GNU readline library. Tested under OpenBSD 2.4. David Leonard , 1999. Public Domain.