bpo-33692: pythoninfo detect libedit on Python 3.6 (GH-7293)
Check which readline implementation is used based on the readline
docstring.
diff --git a/Lib/test/pythoninfo.py b/Lib/test/pythoninfo.py
index 776f03f..9242a36 100644
--- a/Lib/test/pythoninfo.py
+++ b/Lib/test/pythoninfo.py
@@ -275,6 +275,14 @@
copy_attributes(info_add, readline, 'readline.%s', attributes,
formatter=format_attr)
+ if not hasattr(readline, "_READLINE_LIBRARY_VERSION"):
+ # _READLINE_LIBRARY_VERSION has been added to CPython 3.7
+ doc = getattr(readline, '__doc__', '')
+ if 'libedit readline' in doc:
+ info_add('readline.library', 'libedit readline')
+ elif 'GNU readline' in doc:
+ info_add('readline.library', 'GNU readline')
+
def collect_gdb(info_add):
import subprocess