arrow keys don't work

[Robert Kern]

tac-tics wrote:
> I've noticed that in Python 2.5, the interactive prompt does not
> support intelligent use of arrow keys like 2.4 did (up/down for
> previous/next statement, left/right for moving the cursor). What
> exactly is the reason for this and is there an easier fix than
> downgradinig to 2.4? Thanks.

Your installation of 2.4 probably had the readline module installed while your
installation of 2.5 doesn't. What platform are you on?

-- 
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."
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