[Tutor] Add readline capabilities to a Python build 2.6 on Ubuntu

Eric Dorsey dorseye at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 20:24:07 CET 2009


Still doesnt work.. I just get this when I hit the up arrow:>>> ^[[A

Bah. It works in the 2.5 version that came packaged with it. Thanks for
trying :)

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:27 PM, زياد بن عبدالعزيز الباتلي <
ziyad.albatly at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:19:56 -0700
> Eric Dorsey <dorseye at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I did an aptitute install of  ibreadline5-dev and then
> > did ./configure and make again, and still don't have any
> > functionality to be able to hit up-arrow and get a command repeated
> > while inside the interpreter. Any ideas?
> >
> >
> I don't know what's wrong, Python should pickup "libreadline" and use
> it automatically if it was installed.
>
> Try passing "--with-readline" to the "configure" script.
>
> If that doesn't help, then I'm sorry, I'm out of ideas.
>
> Hope that help.
> Ziyad.
>
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