Python 2.2.1 question

[holger krekel]

Sebastian Roth wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got an question about Python 2.2.1. It's selfcompiled but it looks 
> like that it don't have an history. If I press <cursor-up> it simply 
> prints: ^[[A
> 
> but why? Which ./configure-argument was missing ?

check that you have the header files for the 'readline' 
library installed before you 'configure'. I guess
you also need to exec 'import rlcompleter' (readline-completer) 
somewhere in your startup files (PYTHONSTARTUP points to a script).

Oh and i assume that you are using a variant of unix :-)

    holger