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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by CDRdude on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:57PM (#16243565)
What shell does that work in? On a mac, I have that set in my .inputrc and it does not propagate to python.
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Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI by zeptomu on Friday January 26, 2018 @10:44PM (#16244729)
Bash. Actually it depends if the program uses libreadline - which should be the case for Python's REPL?

You may try `rlwrap` which wraps programs without readline support.

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