ImportError: No module named readline error solution

The python version is 2.7.5 and the system is centos7.x series.

Error code:

[Root @ Shell site-packages] # python
Python 2.7.5 (default, Mar 18 2016, 16:51:30)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> Import tab
Traceback (most recent call last ):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "tab. py", line 4, in <module>
Import readline
ImportError: No module named readline

Solution:

[Root @ Shell site-packages] # cd/byrd/tools/
[Root @ Shell tools] # wget http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/download.cgi/Readline-1.7.zip
[Root @ Shell tools] # unzip Readline-1.7.zip
[Root @ Shell tools] # cd Readline-1.7
[Root @ Shell Readline-1.7] # python setup. py build
[Root @ Shell Readline-1.7] # python setup. py install