Just installed Python 3.4 and can confirm this is fixed in 3.5 but exists on Python 3.4.9 though I don't receive any segfaults though as in the picture with 3.4.

karthi@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-blr1-01:~$ mkdir /tmp/foo
karthi@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-blr1-01:~$ cd /tmp/foo
karthi@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-blr1-01:/tmp/foo$ rm -rf /tmp/foo
karthi@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-blr1-01:/tmp/foo$ python3.4
Python 3.4.9 (default, Aug  3 2018, 23:38:40)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Failed calling sys.__interactivehook__
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site.py", line 419, in register_readline
    import readline
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2237, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2222, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2164, in _find_spec
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1940, in find_spec
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1911, in _get_spec
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1879, in _path_importer_cache
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>>>
karthi@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-blr1-01:/tmp/foo$ python3.5
Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 23 2017, 16:37:01)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

Python 3.4.9 is the latest release and Python 3.4.10 will be released in March 2019 according to https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0429/#release-schedule . Looking at the patch for this issue and since 3.4 is in security fixes mode I think this fix has a less probability of getting backported which I think is an explicit decision as I can see from the issue.


Thanks