History not working

[tejinderss]

I am under os x mountain lion; and i have installed python 2.7.3 system wide using brew. And i have created virtualenv and installed readline (6.2.4.1) and ipython (0.13.1) using pip in the virtualenv. Now the problem is the up/down keys for history don't work when i quit the session and start a new one. Also one thing more i noted that there is missing like in $HOME/.ipython/profile_default/history.sqlite. No matter what i do, the history wont show up. Kindly resolve this issue. Edit: I have installed ipython and readline using pip install if it matter?

[tejinderss]

Ok if i use easy_install to install readline, then it works. Is it possible to make it pip compatible?

[ahmadia]

pip seems to be broken with a few things on 10.8, including numpy. I don't
think this is an ipython issue.

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On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:53 PM, tejinderss notifications@github.comwrote:

Ok if i use easy_install to install readline, then it works. Is it
possible to make it pip compatible?

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[minrk]

That is not really a question for IPython. pip is known to be deficient wrt readline (hence the extremely loud recommendation that you use easy_install instead of pip for things like readline).