unable to resolve readline issues

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On 2022-12-02 22:38, biglee12672 at gmail.com wrote:
 > Dear Sir:
 >
 > For whatever reason I have lost functionality of using Python 3.11. 
While
 > opening Python (standalone or from CMD prompt) as usual this AM the
 > following message appeared.   Did read that it is not compatible with
 > Windows but I can't get it to work as I don't know what module will load.
 >
 > Python 3.11.0 (main, Oct 24 2022, 18:26:48) [MSC v.1933 64 bit 
(AMD64)] on
 > win32
 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 > Failed calling sys.__interactivehook__
 > Traceback (most recent call last):
 >    File "<frozen site>", line 445, in register_readline
 >    File 
"C:\Users\bigle\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\readline.py", 
line 34, in <module>
 >      rl = Readline()
 >           ^^^^^^^^^^
 >    File 
"C:\Users\bigle\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pyreadline\rlmain.py", 
line 422, in __init__
 >      BaseReadline.__init__(self)
 >    File 
"C:\Users\bigle\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pyreadline\rlmain.py", 
line 62, in __init__
 >      mode.init_editing_mode(None)
 >    File 
"C:\Users\bigle\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pyreadline\modes\emacs.py", 
line 633, in init_editing_mode
 >      self._bind_key('space',       self.self_insert)
 >    File 
"C:\Users\bigle\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pyreadline\modes\basemode.py", 
line 162, in _bind_key
 >      if not callable(func):
 >             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >    File 
"C:\Users\bigle\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pyreadline\py3k_compat.py", 
line 8, in callable
 >      return isinstance(x, collections.Callable)rer
 >                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > AttributeError: module 'collections' has no attribute 'Callable'
 >
 >   From this point on Python became unusable as I uninstalled rebooted 
then
 > reinstalled to find I have the same issues as stated.  Finally 
uninstalled
 > Python as it doesn't perform as usual especially trying to understand the
 > use of pyreadline, gnureadline and or just readline.
 >
 > If you can help great.
 >
 > Regards,
 > Leon Pearlman
 >
Looking at PyPI, it appears that it was last supported on Python 3.5.

I'd suggest that after uninstalling Python, you delete the Python folder
if it's still there (because of any installed 3rd-party modules) before
re-installing.