[Pythonmac-SIG] resetting up-arrow

[Ned Deily]

In article <98E5A8BD-D90D-4ACB-91BE-2D623C312FBC at avatar.com.au>,
 DavidW <vip at avatar.com.au> wrote:

> In MacPython 2.5 (standard pkg install) I've lost the up-arrow  
> function/scrollback function to '^[[A'
> 
> Elegant as is is, it's not very friendly!
> 
> I'm pretty sure it used to work.
> If I load macPython 2.4 (or vim or whatever) from the same shell, it  
> behaves itself, so I'm guessing it's not a $TERM issue.
> 
> My question is, (apart from how do I make it behave as a  'back'  
> button) what have I inadvertently done to cause it to happen.
> Some weird collection of keystrokes?

I'm not sure I understand the problem you mean but it's possible it has 
to do with which of the two line-completion libraries the python you are 
using is linked with: gnu readline or bsd editline.  Generally, recent 
python.org pythons are linked with the former while Apple's built-in 
python has the latter.  Unfortunately, the two have different syntax.  
See for instance:

<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/606317>

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org