[Pythonmac-SIG] UpArrow for previous command

[Michael Barber]

George,

You need to install "readline". You can get it at <http:// 
pythonmac.org/packages/>.

Hope that helps,
Michael


On Jan 30, 2006, at 12:18 PM, George Wright wrote:

> On my old imac when working interactively with python in 'Terminal' I
> could get previous commands by hitting up arrow (or down arrow). I
> can't remember how I set that up and I have been unable to get the
> same feature on my newer iMac g5. Have searched message archives
> without success. Hitting uparrow just prints ^[[A which makes a mess
> you have to delete.
> Would appreciate some help.
>
> George Wright
> http://users.bigpond.net.au/George.Wright/
> http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~gwright
>
>
>
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