Various notes, all about Python [LWN.net]

Various notes, all about Python

Posted Sep 7, 2006 10:23 UTC (Thu) by shane (subscriber, #3335)
In reply to: Various notes, all about Python by dale77
Parent article: Various notes, all about Python

The article indicates that the problem is from the readline library. If
your Python is not complied with the readline library, you would not see
this behavior.

A simple test would be to hit "ctrl-R" and see if the interpreter asks for
a "reverse-i-search". If it does, then you are using readline, if not,
then probably not.

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Various notes, all about Python

Posted Sep 7, 2006 10:34 UTC (Thu) by dale77 (guest, #1490) [Link]

Ctrl-R reports (reverse-i-search) so on your authority readline appears to
be in there. As expected really, because python is not part of the base
LFS build, while readline is.

Dale