Nadeem Vawda <nadeem.va...@gmail.com> added the comment: Reproduced on 3.3 head. Looking at the documentation of the C readline library, it needs to know the length of the prompt in order to display properly, so this seems to be an acknowledged limitation of the underlying library rather than a bug on our side.
Still, this behavior is surprising and undesirable. I would suggest adding a note to the docs for the readline module, directing users to write: input("foo> ") instead of: sys.stdout.write("foo> ") input() ---------- nosy: +nadeem.vawda _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12833> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com