On 19 Feb., 21:47, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: > Do you mean you can't get previous lines in your Python command history > to show up? This sounds as though you may not have built the readline > support in to your experimental build. I can't remember exactly what the > deal is, but I know that readline is GPL licensed, so it may not come as > part of the standard distribution.
Thanks for your reply. I just want to move left and right with the cursor keys. Thats it. I installed libreadline5-dev and rerun ./configure and make ...now it works. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list