[yt-users] python 2.7 readline

[gso at physics.ucsd.edu]

Worked perfectly, thanks!

From
G.S.

> Hi Geoffrey,
>
> You should be able to do:
>
> pip install readline
>
> to get it installed on OSX.  The reason, to my recollection (which may
> be incorrect) that this is tricky is that OSX is a bit more difficult
> to link against readline libraries.  This is by-design by the readline
> implementors and maintainers, however, because readline has been
> licensed under the GPL.  I'm not going to license advocate except to
> note that readline comes by default with most Linux distributions.
> ;-)
>
> -Matt
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:13 PM,  <gso at physics.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>> Hi all, I thought this question was asked before but I couldn't find a
>> quick answer on the archive. Is there a package I need to install or
>> some
>> settings to tweak to get the functionality of pressing "up arrow" to
>> cycle
>> though history of commands, I'm on OS X 10.6.7?
>>
>> Should I try what's described at:
>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/readline
>>
>> Or is there an easier way? (Or did I do something wrong during install
>> so
>> it should be working already?).  Right now I'm just copying and pasting
>> from a text editor when I use iyt, so I'd like to save some copy/paste
>> time.
>>
>> From
>> G.S.
>>
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