arrow keys don't work
I've noticed that in Python 2.5, the interactive prompt does not support intelligent use of arrow keys like 2.4 did (up/down for previous/next statement, left/right for moving the cursor). What exactly is the reason for this and is there an easier fix than downgradinig to 2.4? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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tac-tics wrote: I've noticed that in Python 2.5, the interactive prompt does not support intelligent use of arrow keys like 2.4 did (up/down for previous/next statement, left/right for moving the cursor). What exactly is the reason for this and is there an easier fix than downgradinig to 2.4? Thanks. Your installation of 2.4 probably had the readline module installed while your installation of 2.5 doesn't. What platform are you on? -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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Robert Kern wrote: tac-tics wrote: I've noticed that in Python 2.5, the interactive prompt does not support intelligent use of arrow keys like 2.4 did (up/down for previous/next statement, left/right for moving the cursor). What exactly is the reason for this and is there an easier fix than downgradinig to 2.4? Thanks. Your installation of 2.4 probably had the readline module installed while your installation of 2.5 doesn't. What platform are you on? Actually, I should have posted this a while ago. I've noticed it on Ubuntu Linux, Mac OSX, and earlier today on Sun Solaris. What do I need to do to install / configure readline? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: arrow keys don't work
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:53:01 -0800, tac-tics wrote: I've noticed that in Python 2.5, the interactive prompt does not support intelligent use of arrow keys like 2.4 did (up/down for previous/next statement, left/right for moving the cursor). It works perfectly for me. What exactly is the reason for this and is there an easier fix than downgradinig to 2.4? Thanks. Have you changed your terminal (either the program itself or its config) so that it is no longer sending the correct codes? When you hit the arrow key, what happens? Do you just get nothing at all, or do you get control characters appearing? e.g. ^Z or similar. -- Steven D'Aprano -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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Have you changed your terminal (either the program itself or its config) so that it is no longer sending the correct codes? I doubt this is the case. Everything works for the bash shell and common lisp. It's just python acting up. When you hit the arrow key, what happens? Do you just get nothing at all, or do you get control characters appearing? e.g. ^Z or similar. udlr yields ^[[A^[[B^[[C^[[D in the interactive python interpreter, but like I said, works like it should outside the Python interpreter. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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It looks like I got readline working. Thanks for the help! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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tac-tics [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Have you changed your terminal (either the program itself or its config) | udlr yields ^[[A^[[B^[[C^[[D in the interactive python interpreter, but | like I said, works like it should outside the Python interpreter. If I remember correctly, '^[' represents the escape character and '^[[A', etc represent the standard ANSI terminal escape sequences for the up, etc, key. So you are missing the interpretive layer that should intercept and act on those sequences and Python is getting them raw (literally). tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
