On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Thomas Jollans <tho...@jollans.com> wrote: > On 06/14/2010 02:37 PM, Vincent Davis wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Irmen de Jong <irmen-nosp...@xs4all.nl> >> wrote: >>> On 14-6-2010 1:19, Vincent Davis wrote: >>>> >>>> I just installed 2.6 and 3.1 from current maintenance source on Mac >>>> OSx. When I am running as an interactive terminal session the up arrow >>>> does not scroll thought the history of the py commands I have entered >>>> I just get ^[[A. When I install from a compiled source it works fine. >>>> Whats the fix for this? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Vincent >>> >>> I'm guessing you don't have the readline module. >>> >>> Compile and install GNU Readline, then type 'make' again in your Python >>> source tree. It should now no longer report a missing 'readline' module. >> >> What exactly do you mean by "'make' again in your Python source tree." > > You installed Python from source didn't you? At some point you'll have > to invoke make, unless some tool did that for you. > > Anyway, make sure readline is installed, and then recompile Python.
So I should run ./configure make install again? Will this overwrite other py packages I have installed? Vincent > >> >> Thanks >> Vincent >> >>> >>> -irmen >>> -- >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >>> > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
