On 12/2/22, biglee12...@gmail.com <biglee12...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
When Python runs interactively, it implicitly tries to import the readline module. On POSIX, Python has a builtin readline module that usually uses the GNU Readline library. On Windows, Python does not include a readline module. Instead, if standard I/O is a console, the high-level WinAPI ReadConsoleW() function is used, which implements its own line editor and command-line history. It's not as general, flexible, or capable as the readline interface, so a third-party pyreadline package was implemented for Windows. However, as far as I know, pyreadline is no longer actively developed. Thus it has out-of-date code, which may be broken in newer releases of Python, such as isinstance(x, collections.Callable). Your choice is to either patch pyreadline to fix the bug or uninstall it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
