[issue18458] libedit history offset workaround

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 1e03fd72e116 by Ned Deily in branch '2.7': Issue #18458: Prevent crashes with newer versions of libedit. Its readline http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1e03fd72e116 New changeset dfb7cab9f819 by Ned Deily in branch '3.3': Issue #18458: Prevent crash

[issue18458] libedit history offset workaround

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset b6b8a2171aa3 by Ned Deily in branch 'default': Issue #18458: Prevent crashes with newer versions of libedit. Its readline http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b6b8a2171aa3 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tra

[issue18458] libedit history offset workaround

Ned Deily added the comment: The original patch missed one spot. Here's an updated version. I'm going to apply this to default (for the imminent 3.4.0a2) in case people start running into this on new versions of OS X. It needs to be backported to 2.7 and 3.3; a test would be nice and it coul

[issue18458] libedit history offset workaround

Changes by Jesús Cea Avión : -- nosy: +jcea ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.

[issue18458] libedit history offset workaround

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Building just the readline extension shouldn't be that hard, using a small custom setup.py script. Then install by manually copying it to the right location. And no, I don't work for Apple. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue18458] libedit history offset workaround

Ned Deily added the comment: If you are using an existing binary installation, you could disable readline processing altogether by simply renaming the readline extension module, for example: cd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3 cd ./lib/python3.3/lib-dynload sudo mv readl

[issue18458] libedit history offset workaround

Michael Kleehammer added the comment: Just wanted to chime in that I reported this to Apple and their response was exactly this. (Perhaps Ronald works for Apple?) Is there a temporary work around in the meantime other than rebuilding everything? -- nosy: +mkleehammer ___

[issue18458] libedit history offset workaround

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: (set as "crash" because the current workaround causes a crash with recent versions of libedit) -- keywords: +needs review, patch stage: -> patch review type: -> crash ___ Python tracker

[issue18458] libedit history offset workaround

New submission from Ronald Oussoren: Modules/readline.c contains a workaround for a bug in the readline emulation of libedit: that emulation uses a different starting offset for the history than the real readline. In more recent versions of libedit (such as the one you can now download from <