Python 2.2.1: no readline support on Linux

[Michael Hudson]

tinu <tinu at email.ch> writes:

> Dear Pythoneers
> 
> I just installed Python 2.2.1 on SuSE Linux 7.3, (standard
> build from source) and lost all readlines support. The same
> feature worked perfect with 2.1. Has anybody advice on this?

Do you need to install some kind of "readline-devel" package?

Cheers,
M.

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