Adding GNU Readline after installation?

snewman18

I compiled Python from source on a bunch of my development machines
without enabling the readline modules. Is it possible to add readline
support after installation?

I really just want to get my "up arrow" history working...

Nov 2 '07 #1

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Uwe Grauer

sn*******@gmail.com wrote:

I compiled Python from source on a bunch of my development machines
without enabling the readline modules. Is it possible to add readline
support after installation?

I really just want to get my "up arrow" history working...

No.
You have to uncomment readline support in Modules/Setup, call make
again and do a reinstall.

Uwe

Nov 2 '07 #2

Michele Simionato

On Nov 2, 3:37 am, "snewma...@gmail.com" <snewma...@gmail.comwrote:

I compiled Python from source on a bunch of my development machines
without enabling the readline modules. Is it possible to add readline
support after installation?

I really just want to get my "up arrow" history working...

Google for "rlwrap".

Michele Simionato

Nov 2 '07 #3

snewman18

I really just want to get my "up arrow" history working...

>
Google for "rlwrap".

Thanks for the rlwrap tip - much easier than reinstalling Python (for
the short term). For anyone interested, I installed it and put this in
my .bashrc file:

alias python='rlwrap python'

Now I have my up-arrow history functionality. Thanks!

Nov 5 '07 #4

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