linux-python arrow-key problem when in interactive interpreter

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  • Gabriel Cooper

    linux-python arrow-key problem when in interactive interpreter

    I'm running redhat 9 with python 2.3.3 and when I'm in gnome-terminal
    and inside the python interpreter I can't use the arrow keys anymore.
    They simply show ^[[A, ^[[B, etc.

    It doesn't appear to be gnome-terminal's settings as XTerm has the same
    problem. If just at the command prompt they work fine, I'm able to hit
    up/down/left/right and see previous/next shell commands or move around
    to fix typos on the current line... however once I enter the python
    interpreter it stops working.

    I have found no options in gnome-terminal for switching anything I would
    recognize as useful, such as to "VT100" or anything like that. The only
    remotely similar setting was a character encoding of UTF-8 (unicode) and
    that didn't seem applicable so I left it alone.

    Technically this is probably a linux question not a python question but
    since it only (to my knowledge) happens in the python interpreter I
    thought you guys might know what I've done wrong.

    Gabriel.

  • vincent wehren

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    Re: linux-python arrow-key problem when in interactive interpreter

    Gabriel Cooper wrote:[color=blue]
    > I'm running redhat 9 with python 2.3.3 and when I'm in gnome-terminal
    > and inside the python interpreter I can't use the arrow keys anymore.
    > They simply show ^[[A, ^[[B, etc.[/color]

    This might indicate that Python was built without readline.
    Also see:


    HTH,

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    Vincent Wehren <vincent@visual trans.de>







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