Re: [Jython-users] My interactive Jython 2.5 looks strange

[Philip J. <pj...@un...>]

On Jun 10, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Geoff Bache wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu Lucid and after discovering that the Jython that
> came via the package manager was only 2.2, removed it again and
> installed Jython 2.5.1 via the custom installer.
> 
> The interactive prompt is however somewhat strange. It doesn't
> announce itself at all or display any prompt characters. I assumed for
> a while that it had hung on startup but it was in fact running - it
> looks like this:
> 
> sofa-pc : ./jython
> import os
> print "Hello"
> Hello
> print os.getenv("JAVA_HOME")
> None
> 
> Does anyone know why it ended up like this? The 2.2 I got from the
> package manager gave me a "normal" interactive prompt like the
> ordinary Python prompt.

Does ./jython -i (force interactive mode) help?

--
Philip Jenvey