From: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 20:33:52 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: gh-119102: Fix REPL for dumb terminal (#119332)
X-Git-Tag: v3.14.0a1~1825
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=de8f530841b55885b919677a6938ab33d4a92f20;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

gh-119102: Fix REPL for dumb terminal (#119332)

The site module gets the __main__ module to get _pyrepl.__main__.
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diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py
index 4ba078388a37..f1a6d9cf66fd 100644
--- a/Lib/site.py
+++ b/Lib/site.py
@@ -523,7 +523,12 @@ def register_readline():
             pass
 
         def write_history():
-            from _pyrepl.__main__ import CAN_USE_PYREPL
+            try:
+                # _pyrepl.__main__ is executed as the __main__ module
+                from __main__ import CAN_USE_PYREPL
+            except ImportError:
+                CAN_USE_PYREPL = False
+
             try:
                 if os.getenv("PYTHON_BASIC_REPL") or not CAN_USE_PYREPL:
                     readline.write_history_file(history)