don't rely on setuptools for readline dependency check #361
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ddale reported (#343 (comment)) an issue with the readline dependency.
I imagine this is because setuptools does not actually know about packages that it did not install, so readline installed by other means (my guess from his path is that he uses macports) will not show up.
This commit does explicit import checks, rather than trusting setuptools to find the dependency.