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

[Irmen de Jong]

On 14-6-2010 15:09, Vincent Davis wrote:
>> Anyway, make sure readline is installed, and then recompile Python.
>
> So I should run
> ./configure
> make install
> again?
> Will this overwrite other py packages I have installed?
>
> Vincent

Often there is no need to run the configure script again if you're just satisfying build 
prerequisites for extension modules. Python's build script is smart enough to discover 
the sudden availability of the readline library, and will happily build the readline 
module. Just typing 'make install' should be enough.

Irmen