Python, readline and OS X

[Ron Garret]

In article <epugt9$al5$1 at zinnia.noc.ucla.edu>,
 James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Ron Garret wrote:
> > In article <eptsgb$d1g$1 at daisy.noc.ucla.edu>,
> >  James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:
> > 
> >>Is LD_LIBRARY_PATH pointing to the directory libreadline.dylib?
> > 
> > 
> > It wasn't, but changing it so it did didn't fix the problem.  (I didn't 
> > try recompiling Python, just running it.  I'll try rebuilding later.)
> 
> You must re-compile python, starting with configure so that configure 
> can identify the readline libraries. Otherwise it will compile with no 
> readline, which is your current situation

That did the trick.  Thanks!

rg