[PATCH 0/1] python: fix importing readline with probably escape sequence output

[Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>]

While imports readline in python, if TERM in terminfo is available and 
it contains the variable 'km' and 'smm', the readline initialization will
output the value of 'smm' which is the escape sequence '\E[?1034h'.

'km' means the terminal has a meta key which is a special key on MIT keyboards,
'smm' means turn on the meta key if this terminal has one.

There are 4 solutions to fix this issue:

1) Preserving TERM and unsetting TERM, or setting TERM with a terminal
   without 'smm' (such as terminal 'dumb'). This is the most common 
   approach. But the effect is global even we don't import readline.
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304181
   http://bugs.python.org/issue11390
   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2013-06/msg00000.html

2) Modify readline.c in python, mandatory let readline use a term
   without 'smm' as terminal (such as 'dumb'), it is similar to the
   above solution, but it localizes the effect in readline. The reason
   why choose 'dumb' is GNU Readline library use 'dumb' as default term
   when TERM is unset.

3) Modify terminfo.src in ncurses, let terminfo database doesn't
   contian 'smm', but the number of terms we supported is limited.

4) Modify terminal.c and readline.c in GNU Readline library to explicitly
   disable meta key, or just comment out the outputting code.
   
This patch implements solution 2, I think it has the least side effect.

Thanks
Hongxu

The following changes since commit 3dee534f1e25109e0bdb681de0746c336f4b8840:

  lib/oeqa: fix dependecy check (2013-07-16 10:04:17 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib hongxu/fix-python-readlne
  http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=hongxu/fix-python-readlne

Hongxu Jia (1):
  python: fix importing readline with probably escape sequence output

 meta/recipes-devtools/python/python.inc            |  4 ++-
 ...e-explicitly-use-dumb-as-default-terminal.patch | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/python/python/readline-explicitly-use-dumb-as-default-terminal.patch

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