python command mis-interprets arrow keys

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Rahul schrieb:
> "Diez B. Roggisch" <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote in
> news:67pp4oF2ppl3sU1 at mid.uni-berlin.de: 
> 
>> Is libreadline installed?
> 
> Thanks for your help Diez. I did a locate and found:
> 
> /usr/lib/libreadline.a
> /usr/lib/libreadline.so
> /usr/lib/libreadline.so.5
> /usr/lib/libreadline.so.5.1
> /usr/local/src/Python-2.4.4/Doc/lib/libreadline.tex
> 
> Any better way to check?

The question is if python is build with readline support. Did the python 
version work before, and somehow got messed up, or did you build it 
yourself and it never actually worked? If it's the latter case, you 
might try & install a possible readline-dev-package (or whatever it is 
called on red hat), and build again, cautiously monitoring if readline 
is picked up from the build-process.

Diez