[Nix-dev] python interpreter: interactive editing

[Florian Friesdorf]

Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> For interactive usage, you want to install pythonFull (nix-env -iA 
> nixpkgs.pythonFull). That has readline support etc.

That, and you might want to take a look at some environments I use to
see what's possible:

https://github.com/chaoflow/skel/blob/master/.nixpkgs/config.nix

We are in the process of documenting it.

> 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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