Comment 1 for bug 434669

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:25 AM, psismurf <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Any attempt to get object information using the '?' or '??' operators
> causes the session to lock up and become unresponsive to any keystrokes
> (including Ctrl-C and -Z). The help(obj) command however works as
> advertised. This occurs under both sparc and x86 installations running
> the same python builds and ipython versions.

I have a strong suspicion this is due to a bug in solaris curses.
Could you run this in a normal python session and see if it locks up
also?

import termios, curses, sys

if 1:
            term_flags = termios.tcgetattr(sys.stdout)
            scr = curses.initscr()
            screen_lines_real,screen_cols = scr.getmaxyx()
            curses.endwin()
            # Restore terminal state in case endwin() didn't.
            termios.tcsetattr(sys.stdout,termios.TCSANOW,term_flags)

If so, can you let us know what os.name and sys.platform return on
your machine? We may have to avoid that code altogether in solaris...

Cheers,

f