interactive interpreter, debugger and broken arrow keys with Mac OS X 10.2 Terminal

[Jim Correia]

In article <mailman.1045096428.18523.python-list at python.org>,
 Jp Calderone <exarkun at intarweb.us> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:12:14AM +0000, Jim Correia wrote:
> > When using the interactive interpreter or debugger with the Mac OS X 
> > Terminal my arrow keys don't work as I'd expect (as they do in the 
> > shell, gdb, etc.). Instead I get escape sequences like: ^[[A.
> > 
> > How do I fix this?
> 
>   Enable readline support.  This may be as simple as importing the
> "readline" module, or as difficult as building Python from source.

At the risk of asking the obvious, where can I read about this 
(importing readline) support?

Maybe I'll have to build from source - there is nothing with readline in 
its name in /usr/lib./python2.2. I'm using the python binary 
distribution that came with the OS install.

Thanks,
Jim