On Oct 8, 2:47 pm, Peter Billam <pe...@www.pjb.com.au> wrote: > Greetings. I've upgraded 3.0->3.1 and now my arrow-keys don't work > at the shell command-line, I just get: > >>> ^[[A > etc. Is there some environment-variable or option I have to set ? > I'm using xterm on debian lenny, and compiled python3.1.1, as far > as I remember, just with sh configure, make, make install ... > > Regards, Peter > > -- > Peter Billam www.pjb.com.au www.pjb.com.au/comp/contact.html
You probably need to install the readline-devel package. I don't use debian so I'm not sure of exact the package name. HTH, casevh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list