Compiling python 2.2 with history command line support

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On 8 Jan 2002, Chris Reay wrote:

> > I compiled python 2.2 on a debian 2.2 (too) with the curses support but the
> > command line mode has no advanced edition support (history...)
> > What did I miss ?
>
> You need to download the libreadline (and libreadline_dev?) packages.
> apt-get install or dselect; you know the drill. Then rebuild python,
> of course.

Why do you need to rebuild Python?  Last time I looked the readline
module works fine as a loadable module, and if available is autoloaded.

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