Thanks! It looks like it's the anaconda readline:

```
Python 3.6.6 |Anaconda custom (64-bit)| (default, Jun 28 2018, 11:07:29)
Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
IPython 6.4.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.
>>> import readline; print(readline.__doc__); print(readline.__file__)
Importing this module enables command line editing using GNU readline.
/usr/local/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/
readline.cpython-36m-darwin.so
```

I tried using gnureadline too but get the same broken output.

```
>>> import readline
>>> print(readline.__doc__); print(readline.__file__)
Importing this module enables command line editing using GNU readline.
/usr/local/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/readline.py
>>> cat /usr/local/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/readline.py
from gnureadline import *
from gnureadline import __doc__
```

On Monday, July 9, 2018, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9 July 2018 at 08:59, Jaan Altosaar <altosaar@princeton.edu> wrote:
> > My bad! Reply alling to keep 32042@debbugs.gnu.org in cc. Hope this
> works—
>
> > Still getting the same broken output.
> >
> > Any other ideas?
>
> Can you show the result of the python expressions at the bottom of
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32042#19
>
>
>
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