Hello, For interactive usage, you want to install pythonFull (nix-env -iA nixpkgs.pythonFull). That has readline support etc.
~Shea On 01/30/2013 03:10 PM, Christopher Howard wrote: > Hi. I used nix to install python-2.7.3 on an older Linux system using > Nix. Overall, seems to work fine, except one quirk: the python > interpreter doesn't allow interactive editing or history substitution > (i.e., readline style). But the python-2.7.3 documents suggests it has > this functionality. Does anyone know if this is something that is > optionally compiled into Python, or does a setting have to be changed > somewhere, or...? I tend to live in the interpreter of whatever > language I am using, so it is an important issue to me. > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
