diff --git a/Formula/python.rb b/Formula/python.rb
index 0624146bcf..6d92d147cc 100644
--- a/Formula/python.rb
+++ b/Formula/python.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,26 @@
 require 'brewkit'
 
+class Readline <Formula
+  @url='ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2.tar.gz'
+  @homepage='http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html'
+  @md5='e39331f32ad14009b9ff49cc10c5e751'
+ 
+  def patches
+    (1..14).collect {|n| "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2-patches/readline52-%03d"%n}
+  end
+
+  def keg_only?
+    true
+  end
+
+  def install
+    system "./configure", "--prefix=#{prefix}",
+                          "--mandir=#{man}",
+                          "--infodir=#{info}"
+    system "make install"
+  end
+end
+
 class Python <Formula
   @url='http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.2/Python-2.6.2.tar.bz2'
   @homepage='http://www.python.org/'
@@ -7,9 +28,9 @@ class Python <Formula
 
   def deps
     # You can build Python without readline, but you really don't want to.
-    'readline'
+    Readline.new
   end
-  
+
   def skip_clean? path
     path == bin+'python' or path == bin+'python2.6' or # if you strip these, it can't load modules
     path == lib+'python2.6' # save a lot of time