Arrow Keys in the Interpreter Interface

[Cliff Crawford]

* eandroid at my-deja.com <eandroid at my-deja.com> menulis:
| I use zsh as my shell instead of bash and as a result my arrow keys do
| not properly work in the interpretter, printing ^[[A instead of
| scrolling back though my history. Has anyone seen this? If I change my
| default shell to bash and relogin it starts working. I think that this
| may be related to scripts that the shell runs on login but Python is the
| only program that seems affected.

It sounds like you don't have readline support compiled in; edit
Modules/Setup in the python source directory and recompile to add it.
(I don't know why it works in bash though..)


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