Adding GNU Readline after installation?

[snewman18]

I compiled Python from source on a bunch of my development machines
without enabling the readline modules. Is it possible to add readline
support after installation?

I really just want to get my "up arrow" history working...

 

[Uwe Grauer]

I compiled Python from source on a bunch of my development machines
without enabling the readline modules. Is it possible to add readline
support after installation?

I really just want to get my "up arrow" history working...

No.
You have to uncomment readline support in Modules/Setup, call make
again and do a reinstall.

Uwe

 

[Michele Simionato]

I compiled Python from source on a bunch of my development machines
without enabling the readline modules. Is it possible to add readline
support after installation?

I really just want to get my "up arrow" history working...

Google for "rlwrap".

Michele Simionato

 

[snewman18]

I really just want to get my "up arrow" history working...

Google for "rlwrap".

Thanks for the rlwrap tip - much easier than reinstalling Python (for
the short term). For anyone interested, I installed it and put this in
my .bashrc file:

alias python='rlwrap python'

Now I have my up-arrow history functionality. Thanks!