On Jan 6, 2:40 pm, pdlem...@earthlink.net wrote: > Have recently moved from XP to Ubuntu Linux. > Successfully installed Python 3.1.1 in the Ubuntu 9.04 > release on my desktop. > Problem is the python interactive terminal >>> . > Many of the keys now do not work. > eg pressing left-arrow yields ^[[D > right-arrow ^[[C > Home ^[OH > Del ^[[3~ > up-arrow ^[[A > > Frustrating as I use all these , esp up-arrow to > repeat recent lines. Found the same thing on > my sons MacBook. > > This is not mentioned in two recent Python books > or one on Ubuntu. Nor could I found help on the www. > > Is there any work-around ? Should I just forget > the python prompt >>> ? > > Thanks, Dave pdlem...@earthlink.net
Assuming you compiled the source code, you will also need to install "libreadline5-dev" via Synaptic or apt-get. casevh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
