From: Jason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:06:58 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Issue #20411: Use readline.get_current_history_length to check for the presence of... 
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.0rc1~207
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4d91490579ecd0294902deb7717dd18de9ab2e3f;p=python

Issue #20411: Use readline.get_current_history_length to check for the presence of a history, rather than get_history_item, which assumes a history is present.
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diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py
index b0d8268f81..4fb1058a1e 100644
--- a/Lib/site.py
+++ b/Lib/site.py
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ def enablerlcompleter():
             # want to ignore the exception.
             pass
 
-        if readline.get_history_item(1) is None:
+        if readline.get_current_history_length() == 0:
             # If no history was loaded, default to .python_history.
             # The guard is necessary to avoid doubling history size at
             # each interpreter exit when readline was already configured