Strange tab key behaviour in interactive python 2.7 OSX 10.6.2

[DanielHarper]

BPO	10472
Nosy	@ronaldoussoren, @ned-deily
Superseder	bpo-9907: interactive mode TAB does not insert on OS X built with editline instead of GNU readline

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closed_at = <Date 2010-11-20.21:37:20.721>
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labels = ['OS-mac', 'type-bug']
title = 'Strange tab key behaviour in interactive python 2.7 OSX 10.6.2'
updated_at = <Date 2010-11-20.21:37:20.719>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/DanielHarper'

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[DanielHarper]

Hi there.

I recently downloaded the python 2.7 installer from the python website and installed it on my Mac.

When I run python2.7 in interactive mode, the tab key doesn't seem to behave as how it did in 2.6.

For example

> def helloWorld(name):
... ./ File "<stdin>", line 2
./
^
IndentationError: expected an indented block

When you hit tab it seems to think I want to browse the contents of the current directory I'm in, rather than placing a tab character so I can quickly use python in interactive mode to prototype stuff.

I'd imagine it's something to do with GNU readline, but I'm pretty sure I have this installed

[ned-deily]

The problem you see is with the 2.7 64-/32-bit OS X installer and is documented and will be fixed with the patch in bpo-9907. In the meantime, a workaround is to delete the installed 2.7 framework and install the 32-bit-only version which is built with GNU readline.