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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2018-08-06 02:15:42 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-08-06 02:15:42 -0700
commite20d31cdb33bdfee68bce059f9a9c7ce71b035fe (patch)
tree17324896c31757551671b065c8c0bd871bd58a02 /Lib
parentbpo-34336: Don't promote possibility to leave out typing.Optional (GH-8677) (diff)
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bpo-19891: Ignore error while writing history file (GH-8483)
(cherry picked from commit b2499669ef2e6dc9a2cdb49b4dc498e078167e26) Co-authored-by: Anthony Sottile <asottile@umich.edu>
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-rw-r--r--Lib/site.py11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py
index 1bd63ccf6a2..86ca2dba61b 100644
--- a/Lib/site.py
+++ b/Lib/site.py
@@ -418,7 +418,16 @@ def enablerlcompleter():
readline.read_history_file(history)
except IOError:
pass
- atexit.register(readline.write_history_file, history)
+
+ def write_history():
+ try:
+ readline.write_history_file(history)
+ except (FileNotFoundError, PermissionError):
+ # home directory does not exist or is not writable
+ # https://bugs.python.org/issue19891
+ pass
+
+ atexit.register(write_history)
sys.__interactivehook__ = register_readline