http://docs.python.org/dev/tutorial/interpreter.html does not talk about the fact that completion and history are now enabled by default on systems that support readline, and instead says that the command line editing features are "usually not very sophisticated".  This is no longer true.

Please review that attached patch.  Feedback is welcome.

In your patch, you do not explain how to enable the command line editing. Can you add this part, or just add the reference to the existing doc?

Just as a point of information, when making a patch like this it is best to change the smallest number of lines possible, without worrying about line wrapping.  This allows us to see just what was changed.  The committer can then reflow the paragraph (actually I prefer to commit the minimum change and then do a separate reflow commit).

The patch itself looks fine.  Stéphane: the original docs didn't explain it either, and in 3.4 you don't have to do anything to enable it.  (That is, if it isn't automatically enabled, it *can't* be turned on, because readline isn't available.)

David, thank you for this comment about the automatic activation of the command line editing.

Actually I take it back, the patch as a patch also has a couple issues: the line lengths are not in fact less than 80 characters in any case, and there is trailing whitespace on several lines.

Could you redo it with just the minimum lines changed and no trailing whitespace?

I've resubmitted the patch with the minimum lines changed and no trailing white space.

New changeset cbe0cf95fe37 by R David Murray in branch '3.4':
#20874: update tutorial wording: sophisticated line editing is now standard.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/cbe0cf95fe37

New changeset b5f4ab357ff9 by R David Murray in branch '3.4':
#20874: reflow paragraph.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b5f4ab357ff9

New changeset d4e3bea03f9f by R David Murray in branch 'default':
Merge #20874 fix.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d4e3bea03f9f

Thanks, Rafael.