On Nov 29, 2010, at 7:32 PM, Bradey Honsinger wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Larry Bugbee <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Nov 29, 2010, at 1:32 PM, David Dyck wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Larry Bugbee <[email protected]> wrote: >>> When running the 2.7.1 interpreter (>>>) the up arrow does not fetch the >>> previous command. (2.6.1 and 2.5.4 work just fine.) I've run into this >>> before, years ago, but do not remember the fix. libreadline.dylib is in >>> /usr/lib. Nothing in .../Python-2.7.1/Mac/README. >> >> Were you asking about "readline" functionality? >> http://docs.python.org/library/readline.html >> http://www.google.com/search?q=+python+readline >> >> Thanks, I saw those and all that I looked at... No Joy. They had to do >> with importing and using the readline package, not getting readline to work >> as part of the interpreter when running in Terminal at the >>> prompt. > > I'm not at my Mac right now to check it out myself, but this looks > like it might be related to this issue: > > http://bugs.python.org/issue6877 > > This was fixed in the trunk for 2.7 and backported to 2.6.5, so the > behaviour you're seeing could be a regression, but take a look at your > ./configure command line--there are a couple of command lines in this > comment: > > http://bugs.python.org/issue6877#msg98858 > > None of them look directly related to readline, but > MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6 could have some effect. > > - Bradey
When I first read your note I saw MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET and indeed that was related to my problems a few years back. This evening I read and tried pretty much every combination I could find or think of. Again, no joy. Something's still wrong but I cannot spend much more time on this. I'd do well to stick with 2.6.5 and try again in a couple of weeks. Thanks for the leads. Larry
