[issue34091] REPL does not work in msys2, ConEmu terminals on windows

Segev Finer added the comment: I'd assume this is using ConEmu's ChildGui which means it hacks up a MinTTY window to appear inside ConEmu's GUI. MinTTY doesn't use a real terminal but rather pipes as the processes stdio. Any native (non-MSYS2) Windows program would have a problem with this.

[issue34091] REPL does not work in msys2, ConEmu terminals on windows

Maximilian Nöthe added the comment: Tab completion does not work in the REPL even when started with `-i -u`, so there might be a deeper problem than just the PIPE that's preventing python from starting in interactive mode. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue34091] REPL does not work in msys2, ConEmu terminals on windows

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[issue34091] REPL does not work in msys2, ConEmu terminals on windows

Martin Panter added the comment: The problem as I understand it is that Msys uses a pipe, but Python by default limits interactive REPL mode to terminals only. The same thing happens if you start Python on a pipe some other way, for instance “cat | python” vs “cat | python -i”. I would

[issue34091] REPL does not work in msys2, ConEmu terminals on windows

New submission from Maximilian Nöthe : The REPL won't start in interactive mode, it only starts when explicitly given the `-i` option. The problems IPython is having, e.g. missing syntax highlighting and no tab completion should have the same root. See this issue for mingw: