activating history in Python 2.3.4

[Andrew James]

Gerhard,
I wonder if it's your terminal that is causing the problems? If you're
using xterm, try switching to aterm, konsole or gnome-terminal and see
if the behaviour is the same.

Andrew

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 13:41 +0100, Riko Wichmann wrote:
> Gerhard Haering wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:03:47AM +0100, Riko Wichmann wrote:
> > 
> >>[Python compiled from source does not have readline support]
> > 
> > 
> > Make sure that the readline development headers and libraries are
> > installed on your system.
> > 
> > On Debian Linux, for example they're called libreadline4-dev. On
> > RPM-based Linux distributions, they're called libreadline-devel or
> > similarly.
> 
> well I installed readline5.0 from source, so all necessay headers are 
> there. but still, no module named readline ....
> 
> I configure python explicitly with --with-readline and everything seems 
> to be fine. I find in the config.log:
> 
> ac_cv_lib_readline_rl_completion_matches=yes
> ac_cv_lib_readline_rl_pre_input_hook=yes
> 
> and no other complains in connection with readline. However, looking in 
> the lib/python2.3/lib-dynload after make, make install, there is only a 
> readline_failed.so and an xreadlines.so ... ??
> 
> Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	Riko
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