help: up/down arrows in 2.3.4 interactiv

[Jerald]

Hi.

I've just installed 2.3.4 from the source on a linux box.
In the interactive mode, up/down arrows do not work.
When I press 'up' python prints '^[[A' and down gives '^[[B'
What is wrong?

Thanks,

Gerald

[Erik Heneryd]

Jerald wrote:

Hi.

I've just installed 2.3.4 from the source on a linux box.
In the interactive mode, up/down arrows do not work.
When I press 'up' python prints '^[[A' and down gives '^[[B'
What is wrong?

Thanks,

Gerald

You need to build the readline module. Enable it in Modules/Setup and
do make, make install again.

(assuming you got the readline lib+headers to begin with)
Erik

[Michael Hudson]

Jerald <jf*@freemail.gr> writes:

I've just installed 2.3.4 from the source on a linux box.
In the interactive mode, up/down arrows do not work.
When I press 'up' python prints '^[[A' and down gives '^[[B'
What is wrong?

Try installing readline-dev, or whatever package you need to convince
your distro to install readline's headers.

Cheers,
mwh

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[DogWalker]

Besides the good advice from others you might want to do the following:

[1] Read the readme well! Especially the section about building.
[2] Run configure like this:
configure >configure.log 2>&1
[3] Open config.log and configure.log in a word processor and search for
"no"
and "fail"
(this will tell you what the configure's view of your world is: such
as it cannot find some module's headers and other anomalies. You'll have to
fix the problems with modules you want to use.
[4] do the same thing with make.

A python gets along without arms, legs and batteries, but Python doesn't
do well at all.

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Hi.

I've just installed 2.3.4 from the source on a linux box.
In the interactive mode, up/down arrows do not work.
When I press 'up' python prints '^[[A' and down gives '^[[B'
What is wrong?

Thanks,

Gerald
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[Thorsten Kampe]

* Jerald (2004-09-14 04:37 +0200)

I've just installed 2.3.4 from the source on a linux box.
In the interactive mode, up/down arrows do not work.
When I press 'up' python prints '^[[A' and down gives '^[[B'
What is wrong?

No readline? Mangled $INPUTRC? Anyway, probably not a python thing.