getting up arrow in terminal to scroll thought history of python commands

[Thomas Jollans]

On 06/14/2010 02:37 PM, Vincent Davis wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Irmen de Jong <irmen-NOSPAM- at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> On 14-6-2010 1:19, Vincent Davis wrote:
>>>
>>> I just installed 2.6 and 3.1 from current maintenance source on Mac
>>> OSx. When I am running as an interactive terminal session the up arrow
>>> does not scroll thought the history of the py commands I have entered
>>> I just get ^[[A. When I install from a compiled source it works fine.
>>> Whats the fix for this?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Vincent
>>
>> I'm guessing you don't have the readline module.
>>
>> Compile and install GNU Readline, then type 'make' again in your Python
>> source tree. It should now no longer report a missing 'readline' module.
> 
> What exactly do you mean by "'make' again in your Python source tree."

You installed Python from source didn't you? At some point you'll have
to invoke make, unless some tool did that for you.

Anyway, make sure readline is installed, and then recompile Python.

> 
> Thanks
> Vincent
> 
>>
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