Shea Levy <s...@shealevy.com> writes: > Hello, > > For interactive usage, you want to install pythonFull (nix-env -iA > nixpkgs.pythonFull). That has readline support etc.
That, and you might want to take a look at some environments I use to see what's possible: https://github.com/chaoflow/skel/blob/master/.nixpkgs/config.nix We are in the process of documenting it. > On 01/30/2013 03:10 PM, Christopher Howard wrote: >> Hi. I used nix to install python-2.7.3 on an older Linux system using >> Nix. Overall, seems to work fine, except one quirk: the python >> interpreter doesn't allow interactive editing or history substitution >> (i.e., readline style). But the python-2.7.3 documents suggests it has >> this functionality. Does anyone know if this is something that is >> optionally compiled into Python, or does a setting have to be changed >> somewhere, or...? I tend to live in the interpreter of whatever >> language I am using, so it is an important issue to me. >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev -- Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 Jabber/XMPP: f...@chaoflow.net IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC
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