GNU bug report logs - #25753
Python with libedit (macOS default) echoes input, breaks native completion

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: charles <at> aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)

Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:09:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 21431, 22796, 26326

Found in versions 24.5, 25.1, 25.2, 26.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #84 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Monib Ahmed <MonibAhmed <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26326 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26326: 25.1; "import codecs, os; ..." Weird output in python
 shell Mac OS X
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:53:57 -0400

merge 25753 26326
quit

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Monib Ahmed <MonibAhmed <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, I wrote a simple "Hello World" python script, and the output is
> weird:
>
>>>> import codecs, os;__pyfile =
>>>> codecs.open('''/var/folders/f9/y1xt5ytn02v2n7p8pk3_h4xw0000gn/T/py1281TtN''',
>>>> encoding='''utf-8''');__code =
>>>> __pyfile.read().encode('''utf-8''');__pyfile.close();os.remove('''/var/folders/f9/y1xt5ytn02v2n7p8pk3_h4xw0000gn/T/py1281TtN''');exec(compile(__code,
>>>> '''/Users/monibahmed/Documents/Python/people_class/hello_world.py''',
>>>> 'exec'));
> Hi
> Hello World!
>>>>
>
> Any recommendation on how to fix this?

Perhaps you can figure out how to make Emacs' python code (see
__PYTHON_EL_native_completion_setup() in python.el) work properly with
a libedit based readline?

Otherwise, you can work around it by installing a GNU readline based
readline module:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=25753#74
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