getting up arrow in terminal to scroll thought history of python commands

[Vincent Davis]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Irmen de Jong <irmen-NOSPAM- at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 14-6-2010 1:19, Vincent Davis wrote:
>>
>> I just installed 2.6 and 3.1 from current maintenance source on Mac
>> OSx. When I am running as an interactive terminal session the up arrow
>> does not scroll thought the history of the py commands I have entered
>> I just get ^[[A. When I install from a compiled source it works fine.
>> Whats the fix for this?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Vincent
>
> I'm guessing you don't have the readline module.
>
> Compile and install GNU Readline, then type 'make' again in your Python
> source tree. It should now no longer report a missing 'readline' module.

What exactly do you mean by "'make' again in your Python source tree."

Thanks
Vincent

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