On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:09:08 +0100, casevh <cas...@gmail.com> wrote:
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
Or you can use Idle instead of terminal. It works kind of different.
sudo apt-get install idle-python3.1
will do the thing!
cheers,
trzewiczek
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