Problem with keyboard up/down arrows in Python 2.4 interpreter

[Julien]

On Mar 25, 6:35 pm, Ned Deily <n... at acm.org> wrote:
> In article
> <AANLkTimrz_=6qGHQDQK3Rh7HOGOCjJxZkGy4DcjF4... at mail.gmail.com>,
>  Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kap... at case.edu> wrote:
>
> > As I stated above, py-readline is for if you're using Macports, which
> > is a package manager for Mac OS X.
>
> ... in which case you probably want:
>
>    sudo port install py-readline
>
> > If you installed Python through
> > some other means, I'm not sure why you don't have readline installed
> > already, because it should be built with the rest of the Python
> > modules.
>
> For releases prior to Python 2.6 and Python 3.2, to build the Python
> readline module, you need to have installed a local version of the GNU
> readline library, a library which is not included in Mac OS X.  Starting
> with Python 2.6 and with a deployment target of Mac OS X 10.5 or higher,
> the Python readline module will be automatically linked with the
> Apple-supplied BSD editline (libedit) library.
>
> P.S to Julien: Python 2.4 is *really* old now and is no longer supported
> by the Python developers.  It probably won't build correctly on current
> OS X 10.6 without some help.  Python 2.7.1 and Python 3.2 are the
> current releases.
>
> --
>  Ned Deily,
>  n... at acm.org

Thank you Ned and Benjamin, and sorry for the confusion :)

I did install python2.4 using Mac Ports, and as you've suggested I've
just installed py-readlines using Mac Ports as well, and it now works!

Many thanks!

Julien