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Author pitrou
Recipients Arfrever, David.Edelsohn, dmalcolm, eryksun, marczellm, ncoghlan, pitrou, python-dev, skrah, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date 2014-05-11.14:54:10
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This looks like a well-known issue on Fedora (and Red Hat?):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15760712/python-readline-module-prints-escape-character-during-import
http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2009/08/14/readline-invisible-character-hack.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2007-08/msg00004.html

Apparently using XTERM=vt100 would workaround the issue.
(I can't reproduce under Ubuntu)
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2014-05-11 14:54:11pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, ncoghlan, tim.golden, Arfrever, skrah, dmalcolm, python-dev, zach.ware, eryksun, David.Edelsohn, marczellm
2014-05-11 14:54:11pitrousetmessageid: <1399820051.19.0.980942520306.issue21425@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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