I am using fluxbox an a window manager not KDE. That may have something to do with it. I will ask in another forum.
Running: >>> import readline in both terminals succeded. Thank you for your help. Brandon On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 09:07:46PM -0500, brandon w wrote: > > I have noticed the difference in terminals when using the Python > > interpreter. > > I am able to up-arrow to get the last typed command using rxvt but when I > > use konsole and I press the up-arrow I get the symbols: ^[[A > > Why is that? Is this the right place to ask this question? I want to be > > able to > > use the up-arrow in all terminals so I don't have to type as much. > > Assuming you are using the same Python executable in both terminals, > then it isn't a problem with Python, but with the settings for Konsole. > Which surprises me, since I've used Konsole and it just works fine. > (Although if you're using KDE 4, nothing would surprise me...) > > Try this, in both terminals: > > Start the Python interactive interpreter > Enter import readline > > If they both succeed, then the problem is that Konsole is (somehow!) not > using readline when it should be. You may need to ask for help in a KDE > forum. > > If you are using two different Python executables, then possibly one of > them is not built using the readline library, in which case you should > install the GNU readline utils package on that machine and re-build > Python. > > If none of these things help, you may need to ask the question on the > main Python list, [email protected] or comp.lang.python. > > > > -- > Steven > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
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