gh-137113 docs: note readline no longer supported in REPL after 3.13 #137142
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Add a note to the readline module documentation stating that Python 3.13 and later no longer supports readline in the default REPL, as per pythongh-118840. Includes workaround using PYTHON_BASIC_REPL. Closes pythongh-137113. Signed-off-by: Kuang Yu Heng <yuheng3107@gmail.com>
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I don't have much confidence in this, but #118840 didn't talk much about why readline is not supported, so linking it here doesn't provide much help.
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I think using The new REPL introduced in 3.13 doesn't support readline is a better approach because we don't drop support for it, and users can still use it if they switch to the old REPL.
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@aisk Thank you for the kind feedback, I have changed the docs for this according to your suggestion.
Signed-off-by: Kuang Yu Heng <yuheng3107@gmail.com>
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| The new REPL introduced in version 3.13 no longer supports readline. | |
| The new :term:`REPL` introduced in version 3.13 doesn't supports readline. |
Because it has never supported readline (I think).
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Addee a note to the readline module documentation stating that Python 3.13 and later no longer supports readline in the default REPL, as per #118840.
Closes #137113
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