help: up/down arrows in 2.3.4 interactiv

[Jerald]

Hi.

I've just installed 2.3.4 from the source on a linux box.
In the interactive mode, up/down arrows do not work.
When I press 'up' python prints '^[[A' and down gives '^[[B'
What is wrong?

Thanks,

Gerald

[Erik Heneryd]

Re: help: up/down arrows in 2.3.4 interactiv

Jerald wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi.
>
> I've just installed 2.3.4 from the source on a linux box.
> In the interactive mode, up/down arrows do not work.
> When I press 'up' python prints '^[[A' and down gives '^[[B'
> What is wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gerald[/color]

You need to build the readline module. Enable it in Modules/Setup and
do make, make install again.

(assuming you got the readline lib+headers to begin with)


Erik

[Michael Hudson]

Re: help: up/down arrows in 2.3.4 interactiv

Jerald <jfj@freemail.g r> writes:
[color=blue]
> I've just installed 2.3.4 from the source on a linux box.
> In the interactive mode, up/down arrows do not work.
> When I press 'up' python prints '^[[A' and down gives '^[[B'
> What is wrong?[/color]

Try installing readline-dev, or whatever package you need to convince
your distro to install readline's headers.

Cheers,
mwh

--
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[DogWalker]

Re: up/down arrows in 2.3.4 interactiv

Besides the good advice from others you might want to do the following:

[1] Read the readme well! Especially the section about building.
[2] Run configure like this:
configure >configure.lo g 2>&1
[3] Open config.log and configure.log in a word processor and search for
"no"
and "fail"
(this will tell you what the configure's view of your world is: such
as it cannot find some module's headers and other anomalies. You'll have to
fix the problems with modules you want to use.
[4] do the same thing with make.

A python gets along without arms, legs and batteries, but Python doesn't
do well at all.

"Jerald" <jfj@freemail.g r> wrote in message
news:ci4i04$1h1 v$1@ulysses.noc .ntua.gr...[color=blue]
> Hi.
>
> I've just installed 2.3.4 from the source on a linux box.
> In the interactive mode, up/down arrows do not work.
> When I press 'up' python prints '^[[A' and down gives '^[[B'
> What is wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gerald
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> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>[/color]

[Thorsten Kampe]

Re: help: up/down arrows in 2.3.4 interactiv

* Jerald (2004-09-14 04:37 +0200)[color=blue]
> I've just installed 2.3.4 from the source on a linux box.
> In the interactive mode, up/down arrows do not work.
> When I press 'up' python prints '^[[A' and down gives '^[[B'
> What is wrong?[/color]

No readline? Mangled $INPUTRC? Anyway, probably not a python thing.