Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> writes: > possibly relavent info: > > python 1.5.2 (both from redhat 6.1 & a fairly recent cvs) > readline-2.2.1-5 (according rpm -q readline) No problem here with readline 2.1-13.6 (from Debian GNU/Linux potato). I'm using the official 1.5.2 version of Python.