This archive contains binaries of GNU readline module, win32 version.

To install, copy 'readline.pyd' to your Python dll directory
(<PythonPath>/DLLs). Then decide where you will keep 'readline.dll'
(Readline library itself). Suggestions, in order of desirability:

1. Your usual bin directory, '/bin', '/usr/bin', or '/usr/local/bin'
2. Any direcory on your path
3. You windoes/system direcory
4. Aforementioned Python's DLL directory

Then, put somewhere '.inputrc' file and set INPUTRC environment variable
pointing to it (mandatory! this version doesn't have builtin bindings).

If ability to edit line and use history is enough for you, you've done -
just start python and it automagically will load readline module.

I guess, however, that you want completion. So, make Python startup file
(say, '.startup.py') and set PYTHONSTARTUP environment variable point to it.
Put in that file something like
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import readline
import rlcompleter
readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
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Paul.Sokolovsky@technologist.com
http://www.is.lg.ua/~paul/devel/readline/pymodule.html