InteractiveConsole History on Linux

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Sat Jul 15 15:48:45 EDT 2006


Chris Spencer wrote:
> Why does code.InteractiveConsole support command history on Windows, but 
> not in a Gnome terminal (all I get is ^[[A^[[B)? Or does it not support 
> history at all, and the Windows console is implementing it's own? Is 
> there any way to get command history working with InteractiveConsole on 
> Linux?

Be sure that the readline module is installed.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco




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