On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:19:56 -0700 Eric Dorsey <dors...@gmail.com> wrote: > I did an aptitute install of ibreadline5-dev and then > did ./configure and make again, and still don't have any > functionality to be able to hit up-arrow and get a command repeated > while inside the interpreter. Any ideas? > > I don't know what's wrong, Python should pickup "libreadline" and use it automatically if it was installed.
Try passing "--with-readline" to the "configure" script. If that doesn't help, then I'm sorry, I'm out of ideas. Hope that help. Ziyad. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
