Antoine Pitrou added the comment: We seem to have gotten bit by this in issue21425.
Dave, is it possible for you to validate the proposed fix? I can't test this under Ubuntu. Setting priority to "high" as it seems to actually annoy many people: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15760712/python-readline-module-prints-escape-character-during-import http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2009/08/14/readline-invisible-character-hack.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2007-08/msg00004.html ---------- nosy: +skrah priority: normal -> high versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19884> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com