Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Yes, the first part of my post was about how it worked in regular interactive window: prints text, then prompt, then blinking underline cursor.
Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2012, 23:24:47) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 -- Win7 Professional, with all MS patches. Are you running the apr 10 release or something compiled later, with the readline stub replaced? Problem manifests in raw_input(): get same behavior of print prompt then crash when should display input cursor. >>> raw_input('xyz') # IDLE still xyz Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module> raw_input('xyz') UnsupportedOperation: readline Problem really is sys.stdin.readline(), which is the dummy stub I quoted in first message. >>> sys.stdin.readline() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#11>", line 1, in <module> sys.stdin.readline() UnsupportedOperation: readline ---------- title: Help() fails at raw_input readline (IDLE 2.7.3, Win7, pythonw) -> sys.stdin.readline 'unsupported' (IDLE 2.7.3, Win7, pythonw) _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16103> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com