On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Vincent Davis <vinc...@vincentdavis.net> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Thomas Jollans <tho...@jollans.com> wrote: >> On 06/14/2010 02:37 PM, Vincent Davis wrote: >>> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Irmen de Jong <irmen-nosp...@xs4all.nl> >>> wrote: >>>> On 14-6-2010 1:19, Vincent Davis wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I just installed 2.6 and 3.1 from current maintenance source on Mac >>>>> OSx. When I am running as an interactive terminal session the up arrow >>>>> does not scroll thought the history of the py commands I have entered >>>>> I just get ^[[A. When I install from a compiled source it works fine. >>>>> Whats the fix for this? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> Vincent >>>> >>>> I'm guessing you don't have the readline module. >>>> >>>> Compile and install GNU Readline, then type 'make' again in your Python >>>> source tree. It should now no longer report a missing 'readline' module. >>> >>> What exactly do you mean by "'make' again in your Python source tree." >> >> You installed Python from source didn't you? At some point you'll have >> to invoke make, unless some tool did that for you. >> >> Anyway, make sure readline is installed, and then recompile Python. > > So I should run > ./configure > make install > again? > Will this overwrite other py packages I have installed? > > Vincent >
That should be ./configure make make install You missed a rather important step. I don't think it will overwrite anything except for the files that are part of Python itself, but I'm not completely sure. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
