[Nix-dev] python interpreter: interactive editing

[Shea Levy]

Hello,

For interactive usage, you want to install pythonFull (nix-env -iA 
nixpkgs.pythonFull). That has readline support etc.

~Shea

On 01/30/2013 03:10 PM, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Hi. I used nix to install python-2.7.3 on an older Linux system using
> Nix. Overall, seems to work fine, except one quirk: the python
> interpreter doesn't allow interactive editing or history substitution
> (i.e., readline style). But the python-2.7.3 documents suggests it has
> this functionality. Does anyone know if this is something that is
> optionally compiled into Python, or does a setting have to be changed
> somewhere, or...? I tend to live in the interpreter of whatever
> language I am using, so it is an important issue to me.
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