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

Roel Schroeven rschroev_nospam_ml at fastmail.fm
Thu Feb 19 22:17:07 CET 2009


Robert Berman schreef:
> Eric,
> 
> I am running under Ubuntu 8.10.
> 
> If I use IDLE the up arrow key gives me nothing at all. It does work
> using iPython which for most testing of ideas and code snippets has
> replaced IDLE.

FYI, in Idle the keys for going back and forth in the history are Alt-P
(previous) and Alt-N (next).


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Roel Schroeven



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