A standalone build of the readline module that will work with Python 2.3.5 for PPC or Intel based Mac OS X using readline 5.1.  readline.c is a verbatim copy of the readline.c from Python 2.3.5 modified slightly to build with readline 5.1 (required a variable name change).

To build/install readline 5.1:

gnutar xfvzp readline-5.1.tar.gz
cd readline-5.1
./configure --disable-shared --enable-static
sudo make install
cd ../readline-0.0.0
sudo python setup.py install

To test, just run the python interpreter and make sure "module readline not availabel" is not spewed:

python
Python 2.3.5 (#1, Jan 13 2006, 20:13:11) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 

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