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-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS2
-rw-r--r--Modules/readline.c8
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index eeab829d0f..9876af9c93 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ Extension Modules
- Modifying an empty deque during iteration now raises RuntimeError
instead of StopIteration.
+- Bug #1552726: fix polling at the interpreter prompt when certain
+ versions of the readline library are in use.
Library
-------
diff --git a/Modules/readline.c b/Modules/readline.c
index 92f2d1f15f..853874be25 100644
--- a/Modules/readline.c
+++ b/Modules/readline.c
@@ -768,10 +768,16 @@ readline_until_enter_or_signal(char *prompt, int *signal)
while (!has_input)
{ struct timeval timeout = {0, 100000}; /* 0.1 seconds */
+
+ /* [Bug #1552726] Only limit the pause if an input hook has been
+ defined. */
+ struct timeval *timeoutp = NULL;
+ if (PyOS_InputHook)
+ timeoutp = &timeout;
FD_SET(fileno(rl_instream), &selectset);
/* select resets selectset if no input was available */
has_input = select(fileno(rl_instream) + 1, &selectset,
- NULL, NULL, &timeout);
+ NULL, NULL, timeoutp);
if(PyOS_InputHook) PyOS_InputHook();
}