[issue19884] Importing readline produces erroneous output

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

We seem to have gotten bit by this in issue21425.

Dave, is it possible for you to validate the proposed fix? I can't test this under Ubuntu.

Setting priority to "high" as it seems to actually annoy many people:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15760712/python-readline-module-prints-escape-character-during-import
http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2009/08/14/readline-invisible-character-hack.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2007-08/msg00004.html

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nosy: +skrah
priority: normal -> high
versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.3

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