Python shell: Arrow keys not working in PuTTY

[Ned Deily]

In article <54ec1360$0$12978$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>,
 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Ned Deily wrote:
> > With no --prefix= on ./configure, the default install location is to
> > /usr/local, so "make install" would install a link at
> > /usr/local/bin/python (or python3) and it would only overwrite your
> > system Python if the system Python happened to be installed in
> > /usr/local/bin/.
> Well, I'm not going to say you are wrong, but I can say that on Centos 5 
> systems (and presumably that includes Fedora and Red Hat of the equivalent 
> vintage), if you just run `make install` it overwrites the /usr/bin/python 
> hard link to /usr/bin/python2.4. I know because I've done it :-(

If you're using any current 2.7.x or 3.4.x source tarball (or dev repo) 
from python.org, it ain't gonna happen.  (I'm not going to go back and 
check all the previous releases but it's been that way for a long time, 
AFAIK.)  If you're using source modified by a distribution, like Centos, 
RH, or Fedora, all bets are off, of course.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org