Bug 376537 – Can't import readline in Python 2.7 and 3.2

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Marek Sapota 2011-07-26 22:55:42 UTC]

`python -c 'import readline'` gives:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "readline.py", line 8, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'parse_and_bind'

and `python3 -c 'import readline'` gives:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: Bad magic number in readline.pyc

Using Python 2.7.2-r2 and 3.2-r2

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Tolga Dalman 2011-07-27 08:06:37 UTC]

Works for me - I don't see a problem. Perhaps you should provide more information ? 
For instance, have you enabled readline flag in Python ?

[Comment 2 Marek Sapota 2011-07-27 12:07:42 UTC]

Sorry, by bad - running this command in a directory with a file named 'readline.py' wasn't one of my brightest ideas.  Works well without it.