On Mar 16, 4:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > Bert Heymans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > I'm using iTerm on the mac the keymapping isn't right. On Linux and > > Windows it's really nice to be able to hit up to get the previous > > command. Does anyone know a way to get the Pyhton shell to work like > > on other systems, I always get this when I hit the direction keys: > > > >>> ^[OA^[OC^[OD > > > I've been looking for the correct mappings but can't find a proper > > reference online nor what the Python shell expects. Any help would be > > greatly appreciated! Hints/suggestions on keywords to use in a search > > on Google are always welcome :) I don't know where to begin looking > > for this kind of information. > > The Python 2.3.5 bundled with MacOSX doesn't come with readline. > Download 2.5 (or if you must 2.4) for the Mac fromwww.python.organd > live happily ever after. > > E.g. (I'm hitting an up-arrow the 2nd time, then control-D next time): > > brain:~ alex$ python2.3 > Python 2.3.5 (#1, Jan 13 2006, 20:13:11) > [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> 2+2 > 4 > >>> ^[[A > > File "<stdin>", line 1 > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax>>> ^D > > brain:~ alex$ python2.4 > Python 2.4.3 (#1, Apr 7 2006, 10:54:33) > [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> 2+2 > 4 > >>> 2+2 > 4 > > brain:~ alex$ > > Alex
Wow, thanks for pointing that out Alex! I wasn't even hoping a solution could be that simple :s -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
