On 12 Apr, 2007, at 3:25, Eric Leven wrote: > Noob question? No doubt. But I've asked around, and no one seems to > know. If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it. > > Using the Python (2.3?) interpreter in OS 10.4 in the Terminal, I lose > access to any shell keyboard shortcuts, for example, the arrow keys, > ctrl-a, ctrl-e, etc. Instead I get odd control characters, and I end > up doing a lot of painful cutting and pasting. I don't have this > problem in Linux. Both machines are calling python from a tcsh shell. > > Is there a simple solution? Am I the only one running python from > the terminal?
Install the readline extension, one way to this is the package at: http://www.python.org/pypi/readline (you'll have to build from source if you're running an intel mac). Ronald _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
