Subject: bug#38464: python-hy REPL is unusable

From: Jesse Gibbons <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 19:42:22 -0700

On Mon, 2019-12-02 at 17:16 -0700, Jesse Gibbons wrote:
> 1. install python-hy
> 2. run hy3 (to make sure it's setup to use python 3.7.4)
> 3. press <return> with or without typing anything.
> It prints the following error at the end of a long stack trace:
> 
> ImportError: invalid flags 1495674643 in 'hy.core.language'
> 
> This also happens when using hy2py3, and I have attached a sample stack
> trace from hy2py3.
> 
> If python2-hy is installed (configured to use the python 2.7, which is
> appraching end-of-life), the hy2 REPL and hy2py2 work just fine.
> 
> - Does hy fail similarly on other systems, or is this a guix problem?
> - If this is a guix issue, what is the best way to fix it?
> 
> 
This should be fixed with the patch series in bug#38554.