Drekin added the comment: Unfortunately, I have little or no experience with Python C code and I even don't have a C compiler installed so I cannot experiment. I'll just put my ideas how to solve this here.
• Add sys.__readlinehook__ attribute, which can be set to a function taking a prompt string and returing a line. • Add C function PyOS_UnicodeReadline (possibly with a better name) which has the same signature as sys.__readlinehook__ (in contrast with the signature of PyOS_Readline). If sys.__readlinehook__ is set, call it; otherwise encode the prompt string using stdout encoding and delegate to PyOS_Readline and decode the string returned using stdin encoding. • Change the tokenizer and the implementation of input() so it uses PyOS_UnicodeReadline rather than PyOS_Readline. This would solve the problem that utf-16 encoded string cannot be given to the tokenizer and also would bypass the silent assumption that stdin and stdout encodings are the same. Also, readline hook could be easily set from Python code – no need for ctypes. The package pyreadline could use this. Also, the issue #1602 could be then solved just by changing sys.std* streams and providing a trivial sys.__readlinehook__ delegating to sys.stdout.write and sys.stdin.readline. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17620> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
