Opened 12 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

#33720 closed defect (duplicate)

Cannot use non-ascii in the Python interactive shell

Reported by: Themanwithoutaplan Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.0.4
Keywords: Cc: MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez), jyrkiwahlstedt, petrrr, larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)
Port: python26, python27

Description

If try and type "Ü" then the terminal just beeps and displays nothing. This affects only MacPorts Python 2.6 & 2.7 but not the system Python. Running on Mac OS 10.7

Change History (11)

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by neverpanic (Clemens Lang)

Cc: mcalhoun@… jwa@… added

Please remember to Cc the maintainer(s), if any.

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Have you tried the ucs4 variant?

comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by Themanwithoutaplan

Just tried ucs4 but no joy. Apple's Python is also only ucs2.

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by ned-deily (Ned Deily)

You need to install the corresponding readline ports, i.e. py26-readline and/or py27-readline. (Umlauted characters are in the BMP, so ucs2 is fine.)

comment:5 in reply to:  4 Changed 12 years ago by Themanwithoutaplan

Replying to nad@…:

You need to install the corresponding readline ports, i.e. py26-readline and/or py27-readline. (Umlauted characters are in the BMP, so ucs2 is fine.)

That does indeed solve the problem though I'm curious as to why the readline has to be installed additionally. Licensing issues?

comment:6 Changed 12 years ago by ned-deily (Ned Deily)

That's a good question. Actually, 2.7 at least should work without installing the readline port as, by default, Python now tries to link with libedit (the BSD version) rather than GNU readline. Building Python from source and using the Apple-supplied libedit (in 10.7 for example), your example works OK, as does the python.org 64-bit/32-bit installer which also uses the system libedit, The MacPort port file has some patches in this area (patch-libedit.diff, patch-readlinefix.diff are the obvious ones) which may be breaking something. Someone should look into them. (I don't have time right now to do it myself.);

comment:7 Changed 9 years ago by petrrr

I cannot reproduce this problem. So can we assume this problem is solved?

comment:8 Changed 9 years ago by petrrr

Cc: petr@… added

Cc Me!

comment:9 Changed 9 years ago by Themanwithoutaplan

I can confirm that problem is still there on OS X 10.7.x for

  • python26 @2.6.9_1 (active)
  • python27 @2.7.9_0 (active)
  • python33 @3.3.6_2 (active)
  • python34 @3.4.3_2 (active)

comment:10 Changed 9 years ago by larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)

Cc: larryv@… added

Cc Me!

comment:11 Changed 5 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed
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