On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 10:12:32 -0400, François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

[yongtao yang]

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I am starting to learn python, and the package installed on my SuSE 8.2 box is python2.31 as shown below. Trying to import readline for the interactive mode produces the following error:

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Anyone has a clue where is problem?

Strange, I do not remember having seen such problems, while I have many 8.2 installed. However, I recompile Python on all systems, because we uniformly want a single version everywhere. Maybe you did reinstall it?

Hi, François Thanks you very much! Yes, reinstalling solved the problem!

Then, you must have `readline-devel' installed prior to installing Python. The same is true for `tcl-devel' if you want Tkinter, and `db-devel' if you want `bsddb' support.

You are right, the *-devel package must be installed before the python package for proper support. Thanks again! -- Yongtao Yang email: yongtao.yang@gmail.com