stephenk added the comment:
Didn't know about the inputrc conditional; that works. I verified that
magic-space (without the conditional) also interferes with mysql, so this seems
like less of an oversight on the side of python and more of a bash-user-beware
situation.
Anyway, thank
New submission from stephenk :
Adding the following line to ~/.inputrc for bash commandline usage will break
the python interactive interpreter. Specifically, you can no longer type
"space" characters:
Space: magic-space
This is fairly serious for bash users, because once you
Changes by stephenk :
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components: None
nosy: stephenk
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: .inputrc magic-space breaks interactive mode
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6, Python 3.1
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