[lldb-dev] issue with lldb9 and python3.5

[Pavel Labath via lldb-dev]

On 29/10/2019 09:31, Serge Guelton via lldb-dev wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 10:09:53AM -0700, Adrian McCarthy wrote:
>> +1 Yes, for Windows, I'd be happy if we said Python 3.6+.
> 
> I investigated the bug yesterday, and filled some of my discoveries in
> 
>      https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43830
> 
> TLDR: libpython uses libreadline and lldb uses libedit, and that's a mess.

Hey Christos,

could I bother you to take a look at this python PR 
<https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/16986>, and the related lldb bug 
<https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43830>?

The executive summary is that there is an incompatibility between 
readline and its libedit emulation, which python needs to work around. 
Is there any way this can be fixed in libedit?

I guess the presence of the workaround will make the fix tricky, because 
then the workaround will be wrong for the "fixed" libedit, but it's 
still probably worth it to try to resolve this somehow.

WDYT?

pavel