[Chicago] python 3 on leopard anyone?

[Brian Ray]

That is a little weird. I found the same thing:

[mini] Python-3.0a2 9 > /usr/local/bin/python
Python 3.0a2 (r30a2:59382, Jan 21 2008, 23:57:05)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> 1
1
 >>> 2
2
 >>>
[mini] Python-3.0a2 10 > export LANG=en_US
[mini] Python-3.0a2 11 > /usr/local/bin/python
Python 3.0a2 (r30a2:59382, Jan 21 2008, 23:57:05)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> 1
 >>> 2


You should file a bug.  My guess is that it has something to do with  
the readline dependancy.

Perhaps mention that if LANG=en_US, then readline is dynamically  
loaded from "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/lib-dynload/readline.so". in the  
other case it is loaded from "/System/Library/Frameworks/ 
Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/readline.so".   
You can see this by send python the "-v" flag. A temporarily fix would  
be to force the the use of the system readline while configuring. But  
I do not know how this would work in case others build this without  
autoconfig.

I tried debugging this myself, http://wiki.python.org/moin/DebuggingWithGdb 
, but I am either to tired tonight or lack the tolerance to understand  
the cruft of workaround for previous issues with locale in the  
readline that ships with Python.


Brian Ray
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