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3535status. If that doesn't work, you can exit the interpreter by typing the
3636following command: ``quit() ``.
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38- The interpreter's line-editing features usually aren't very sophisticated. On
39- Unix, whoever installed the interpreter may have enabled support for the GNU
40- readline library, which adds more elaborate interactive editing and history
41- features. Perhaps the quickest check to see whether command line editing is
38+ The interpreter's line-editing features include interactive editing, history
39+ substitution and code completion on systems that support readline.
40+ Perhaps the quickest check to see whether command line editing is
4241supported is typing Control-P to the first Python prompt you get. If it beeps,
4342you have command line editing; see Appendix :ref: `tut-interacting ` for an
4443introduction to the keys. If nothing appears to happen, or if ``^P `` is echoed,
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