SUCCESS!

[Peter Otten]

Erik Johnson wrote:

> I installed readline-devel. (Thank you for re-asking that question.)

I had that hunch :-)
 
> Interestingly, configure *still* says...
> ej at sand:~/Python-2.3.4> ./configure | grep readline
> checking for rl_pre_input_hook in -lreadline... no
> checking for rl_completion_matches in -lreadline... no

I get similar messages for Python 2.4 on Suse 9.1, but the history *does*
work by default. Maybe if you start with a newly unzipped copy and
do ./configure it will work for you, too? Pardon me for not digging deeper
into the gory details...

> Thanks again for your help! :)

You're welcome.

Peter