[issue38995] reverse search (ctrl-r) doest not work

sush added the comment: That worked, thanks for the prompt help. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue38995] reverse search (ctrl-r) doest not work

Ned Deily added the comment: Most likely what is happening is that the two Python instances you are using are linked to different versions of the external readline library. From the version information, it's clear that you are using the Python 3.8.0 from the python.org macOS installer.

[issue38995] reverse search (ctrl-r) doest not work

New submission from sush : On my MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 (18G103), after upgrading python to python 3.8, the ctrl-r on the python interpreter does not work. Here is the working python 3.7 version: ``` $ python3.7 --version Python 3.7.3 $ python3.7 Python 3.7.3 (default, Mar 27 2019,