arrow keys don't work

[Terry Reedy]

"tac-tics" <tactics40 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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|> Have you changed your terminal (either the program itself or its config)
| udlr yields ^[[A^[[B^[[C^[[D in the interactive python interpreter, but
| like I said, works like it should outside the Python interpreter.

If I remember correctly, '^[' represents the escape character and '^[[A', 
etc  represent the standard ANSI terminal escape sequences for the up, etc, 
key.  So you are missing the interpretive layer that should intercept and 
act on those sequences and Python is getting them raw (literally).

tjr