command history in the interpreter?

[Niels Diepeveen]

alex k schreef:

> now i use slackware7. i installed both python1.52 and python1.6 (the
> former replacing the latter). it didn't work in none of them.
> all of the arrowkeys type things like ^[[C  ^[[D and such.

The prebuilt 1.5.2 that comes with Slackware 7 works OK. If you build
one yourself, you have to enable the readline module in Modules/Setup.

> the python interpreter in win98 (1.52 and 1.6) also don't give me the
> history function.

Sorry, there just isn't any readline library on win32. Use IDLE or
PythonWin instead.

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Niels Diepeveen
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