Issue #19884: readline: Disable the meta modifier key if stdout is not a
terminal to not write the ANSI sequence "\033[1034h" into stdout. This sequence
is used on some terminal (ex: TERM=xterm-256color") to enable support of 8 bit
characters.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_readline.py b/Lib/test/test_readline.py
index 945c7f4..aabbf54 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_readline.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_readline.py
@@ -1,17 +1,19 @@
"""
Very minimal unittests for parts of the readline module.
-
-These tests were added to check that the libedit emulation on OSX and
-the "real" readline have the same interface for history manipulation. That's
-why the tests cover only a small subset of the interface.
"""
+import os
import unittest
from test.test_support import run_unittest, import_module
+from test.script_helper import assert_python_ok
# Skip tests if there is no readline module
readline = import_module('readline')
class TestHistoryManipulation (unittest.TestCase):
+ """These tests were added to check that the libedit emulation on OSX and
+ the "real" readline have the same interface for history manipulation.
+ That's why the tests cover only a small subset of the interface.
+ """
@unittest.skipIf(not hasattr(readline, 'clear_history'),
"The history update test cannot be run because the "
@@ -40,8 +42,18 @@
self.assertEqual(readline.get_current_history_length(), 1)
+class TestReadline(unittest.TestCase):
+ def test_init(self):
+ # Issue #19884: Ensure that the ANSI sequence "\033[1034h" is not
+ # written into stdout when the readline module is imported and stdout
+ # is redirected to a pipe.
+ rc, stdout, stderr = assert_python_ok('-c', 'import readline',
+ TERM='xterm-256color')
+ self.assertEqual(stdout, b'')
+
+
def test_main():
- run_unittest(TestHistoryManipulation)
+ run_unittest(TestHistoryManipulation, TestReadline)
if __name__ == "__main__":
test_main()