<skip <at> pobox.com> writes: > > > Isaac> Have people actually verified that the prompt is really sent to > Isaac> stderr right now by using 2>/dev/null to attempt to suppress it? > > Good point. On my machine at work (Solaris), Python 2.4 seems to send its > raw_input prompt to stdout, not stderr: >
> > Same for 2.6a0 on my Mac at home. Mike, are you sure about it prompting to > stderr? If so, what's your setup? > > Skip Skip, Guido and others: Interesting point about whether GNU readline is installed. My setup is RedHat Linux, with Python 2.5 that I built and installed myself. GNU readline is not, in fact, installed. If you look at Python2.5/Parser/myreadline.c, function PyOS_StdioReadline, line 125, you will see that prompt output is being sent to stderr. As best as my Python-fu can determine, this is the code used to output a raw_input prompt (thanks again to Gabriel Genellina for pointing me in the right direction.) It's entirely likely that the difference in what I am seeing and what you guys are seeing is caused by my not having GNU readline installed. Nevertheless, the behavior without it seems wrong, and is certainly different from the documentation. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
