python3.1 shell and Arrow Keys ?

[Peter Billam]

On 2009-10-08, casevh <casevh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2:47 pm, Peter Billam <pe... at www.pjb.com.au> wrote:
>> Greetings.  I've upgraded 3.0->3.1 and now my arrow-keys don't
>> work at the shell command-line, I just get:
>>   >>> ^[[A
>> etc. Is there some environment-variable or option I have to set ?
>> I'm using xterm on debian lenny, and compiled python3.1.1, as far
>> as I remember, just with sh configure, make, make install ...
>
> You probably need to install the readline-devel package. I
> don't use debian so I'm not sure of exact the package name.

Yes! it's
  aptitude install libreadline-dev
and that fixes the problem :-)

Thanks,  regards,  Peter

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