The Python interactive interpreter has no command history

Thu Feb 15 12:14:00 EST 2007

> Hello,
>
> How to configure Python2.5's interactive interpreter to get command
> history ?
>
> I always got ^[[A and ^[[B .
>

Are you using Ubuntu? The last comes with 2.4.x and 2.5. This only
occurs on 2.5. This happens when you compile Python with libreadline
installed, AFAIK.
FIll a bug in the Ubuntu launchpad. You can install libreadline (and
build-essential), download the 2.5 source and compile yourself.

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