joeyoung.io: Enabling arrow key use in python interpreter

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Joseph Young

Joseph Young

Staff Technical Solutions Engineer (BigQuery Support SME) - Google Cloud Platform at Google

Published Jul 16, 2015

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If you only get escape sequence characters while trying to use arrow keys in the python interpreter, you'll need to enable libreadline.  I detail how to set this up in my blog post "Enabling arrow key use in python interpreter" on http://joeyoung.io

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