Erik Johnson wrote: > I installed readline-devel. (Thank you for re-asking that question.)
I had that hunch :-) > Interestingly, configure *still* says... > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Python-2.3.4> ./configure | grep readline > checking for rl_pre_input_hook in -lreadline... no > checking for rl_completion_matches in -lreadline... no I get similar messages for Python 2.4 on Suse 9.1, but the history *does* work by default. Maybe if you start with a newly unzipped copy and do ./configure it will work for you, too? Pardon me for not digging deeper into the gory details... > Thanks again for your help! :) You're welcome. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list