using arrow keys in the python shell on Mac OS X

[Vidar Gundersen]

both Python 2.3.5 shipped with OS X 10.4 and
2.4.2 outputs junk characters instead of allowing
history recall when i hit the up/down arrows.
any solutions to this?

 

[mtbeedee]

You need libreadline to make it work. For some stupid reason OSX
doesnt come with it installed.

just get the gzipped one from here:
http://www.pycs.net/bbum/2004/1/21/readline.so.gz

then gunzip it and put the readline.so into
/Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/

then fire up python again and it should work.