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#20874: update tutorial wording: sophisticated line editing is now standard.
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status. If that doesn't work, you can exit the interpreter by typing the
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following command: ``quit()``.
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The interpreter's line-editing features usually aren't very sophisticated. On
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Unix, whoever installed the interpreter may have enabled support for the GNU
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readline library, which adds more elaborate interactive editing and history
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features. Perhaps the quickest check to see whether command line editing is
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The interpreter's line-editing features include interactive editing, history
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substitution and code completion on systems that support readline.
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Perhaps the quickest check to see whether command line editing is
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supported is typing Control-P to the first Python prompt you get. If it beeps,
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you have command line editing; see Appendix :ref:`tut-interacting` for an
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introduction to the keys. If nothing appears to happen, or if ``^P`` is echoed,

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