Ron Garret wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Is LD_LIBRARY_PATH pointing to the directory libreadline.dylib? > > > It wasn't, but changing it so it did didn't fix the problem. (I didn't > try recompiling Python, just running it. I'll try rebuilding later.)
You must re-compile python, starting with configure so that configure can identify the readline libraries. Otherwise it will compile with no readline, which is your current situation >>Bash (OSX default) and similar shells use this silly 2 part syntax: >> >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/sw/lib >> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH > > Actually you can do it in one line: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=whatever Ok. Now I'll switch to bash. James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list