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interactive prompt and the prompts offered by the built-in :func:`input`
function.
+.. note::
+
+ On MacOS X the :mod:`readline` module can be implemented using
+ the ``libedit`` library instead of GNU readline.
+
+ The configuration file for ``libedit`` is different from that
+ of GNU readline. If you programmatically load configuration strings
+ you can check for the text "libedit" in :const:`readline.__doc__`
+ to differentiate between GNU readline and libedit.
+
The :mod:`readline` module defines the following functions: