On Jan 24, 2008 11:41 AM, Mike Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <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.
Agreed. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
