Readline not working in python?

Readline not working in python?

[Gary Bishop]

In Python 2.1.1 (#12 Oct 5 2001, 08:16:52) on my Win2k machine with a current 
cygwin installation,

I can't seem to get history or command line editing to work. I've fooled with 
.inputrc and with my CYGWIN environment variable.

It was my impression that this version has readline built in so I guess I'm 
doing something wrong.

Any hints on how to get it to work?

If I type the UPARROW key the cursor just moves up in the window in which 
python is running. When I hit return python complains about illegal 
characters...

Thanks
gb

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Re: Readline not working in python?

[Jason Tishler]

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Gary,

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:10:42AM -0500, Gary Bishop wrote:
> Any hints on how to get it to work?

Do you have a .pythonrc.py like the attached?

> In Python 2.1.1 (#12 Oct 5 2001, 08:16:52) ...

BTW, is this a Python 2.1.1 that you built yourself?

Jason

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try:
	import readline
except ImportError:
	print "Module readline not available."
else:
	import rlcompleter
	readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")

	import os
	histfile = os.path.join(os.environ["HOME"], ".python_history")
	try:
		readline.read_history_file(histfile)
	except IOError:
		pass
	import atexit
	atexit.register(readline.write_history_file, histfile)
	del os, histfile


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Readline not working in python?

[Gary Bishop]

In Python 2.1.1 (#12 Oct 5 2001, 08:16:52) on my Win2k machine with a current 
cygwin installation,

I can't seem to get history or command line editing to work. I've fooled with 
.inputrc and with my CYGWIN environment variable.

It was my impression that this version has readline built in so I guess I'm 
doing something wrong.

Any hints on how to get it to work?

If I type the UPARROW key the cursor just moves up in the window in which 
python is running. When I hit return python complains about illegal 
characters...

Thanks
gb

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Re: Readline not working in python?

[Jason Tishler]

Gary,

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:10:42AM -0500, Gary Bishop wrote:
> Any hints on how to get it to work?

Do you have a .pythonrc.py like the attached?

> In Python 2.1.1 (#12 Oct 5 2001, 08:16:52) ...

BTW, is this a Python 2.1.1 that you built yourself?

Jason