Bug: Readline getting stuck on Linux and Solaris

[sragsdale at my-deja.com]

In article <lxk8zqwupy2.fsf at ioasun3.epfl.ch>,
  Jan Kybic <Jan.Kybic at epfl.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I am using Python 2.0, I downloaded it in the RPM form and I
> also compiled it from source on both Linux RedHat 6.2 and Solaris. In
> both cases, when I have the readline module enabled, the keyboard
> input gets stuck.

I'm having similar problems with Python 2.0 hanging in Irix.  What's
most annoying is that this happens on the Python command line when you
hit control-C.  In Python 1.5.2 this is a KeyboardInterrupt event.  In
Python 2.0 this hangs the interpreter which starts using 100% of the
processor.  I can't kill it with more control-C's.  If I disable the
readline (4.1) module this problem goes away.  This problem does not
happen in Linux 2.2.15.  I can't find this bug listed on the sourceforge
bug list.


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