python command mis-interprets arrow keys

[Rahul]

"Diez B. Roggisch" <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote in news:67pq47F2plmb8U1
@mid.uni-berlin.de:

> 
> 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? 

I suspect we upgraded our RHEL and that broke it. Has never worked after.

Is there a way to extract what cmd-line options my python was compiled with? 
Might be worth it before I go the long-painful route of re-installing.


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Rahul