On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:15 PM, ~km<knny.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experiencing a strange behaviour of the Python prompt when using > the > four arrow keys ( not the VIM' nor Emacs' ones ;-) ). Instead of > getting > the previous and next command respectively I get ugly characters. See > it > yourself: > http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=m78cgp&s=3 > > This is not directly Python-specific, but you feel quite handicapped > if > you must rewrite each command again... so my obvious question is: > > How can I fix this? Please, let me know if you can tell me something.
I would guess that your Python wasn't compiled with GNU readline support. Do you get an error if you `import readline`? Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
