bug#68559: [PATCH] Improve Python shell completion

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Eli Zaretskii [2024-02-15 18:48 +0200] wrote:

>> Cc: liuhui1610@gmail.com, kobarity@gmail.com, 68559@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:37:13 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> 
>> > It seems to have something to do with completion. Maybe the new code is
>> sensitive to details of Python's command line editor? The standard Python
>> interpreter is unlikely to use GNU readline, for example.
>> 
>> The python-*-completion-at-point-* tests never worked for me, and I
>> always assumed it was something specific to MS-Windows.  But maybe
>> not.  There was no change in the tests that fail for me before and
>> after the recent changes related to Python.
>
> And, btw, on this Gnu/Linux system:
>
>   $ uname -a
>   Linux (REDACTED) 5.15.0-94-generic #104+11.0trisquel25 SMP Sat Feb 10 
> 06:24:53 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> all the Python tests that failed for you still pass, with the current
> master.  So I wonder what is it that causes those failures on your
> system.

BTW, I have been seeing an IPython test failure on GNU/Linux:

ipython.txt.gz
Description: application/gzip

Any pointers?

Thanks,
-- 
Basil

$ ipython --version
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$ python --version
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