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.. sectionauthor:: Skip Montanaro <[email protected]>

.. note::
The new :term:`REPL` introduced in version 3.13 doesn't support readline.
However, readline can still be used by setting the :envvar:`PYTHON_BASIC_REPL`
environment variable.

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The :mod:`readline` module defines a number of functions to facilitate
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