Past command buffer gone in interpreter?

[Jan Samohyl]

A friend of mine has a similar problem, cursor keys that stop working within the interactive mode. He tried python2.2a3
on both redhat 7.0 and 7.1 and on debian. Also, the strangiest thing is that in one case it worked only for root. He said
it _was_ compiled with readline. I am using the same version redhat 6.1 and everything ok.

Regards
Jan Samohyl