[Bug-readline] Bug report: Unwanted output on stdout from rl_initialize(
From:
Glen Coates
Subject:
[Bug-readline] Bug report: Unwanted output on stdout from rl_initialize()
Date:
Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:45:26 +1000
User-agent:
Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719)
To whom it may concern,
I'm not sure if this is a bug in readline or an incorrect use of
rl_initialize() in Python, however I started noticing that importing the
readline library would cause unwanted control characters on stdout, i.e:
<test.py>
import readline
print "hello"
$ python test.py | od -tc
0000000 033 [ ? 1 0 3 4 h H e l l o \n
By recompiling python, I managed to trace the output to rl_initialize():
<test.c>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <readline/readline.h>
#include <readline/history.h>
int main()
{
rl_initialize();
printf( "hello\n" );
return 0;
}
$ ./test | od -tc
0000000 033 [ ? 1 0 3 4 h h e l l o \n
I'm using the readline library shipped with Fedora 7 (readline-5.2-4.fc7
). I have never seen this in previous versions of Fedora.
Could you please confirm whether or not this is a bug in readline, or
rl_initialize() is being used incorrectly and thus a bug report should
be made to the Python project?
