Segmentation fault: 11 in OS X

Question

I am getting an issue in Python 3.3.2 on OSX 10.9 where if I open Python in a terminal window, it exits with \"Segmentation error: 11\" after the second line I enter, regard

Answer 1

I had this problem after upgrading to OS X 10.9 and used the patch provided on the Python website: http://bugs.python.org/issue18458#msg201087

To use it, open a terminal session in Terminal.app (or other shell), then enter:

curl -O http://bugs.python.org/file32324/patch_readline_issue_18458.sh
openssl sha1 patch_readline_issue_18458.sh
# the digest should be 7cb0ff57820a027dd4ca242eb2418930f8f46b4c

then
sh ./patch_readline_issue_18458.sh

Enter your password, if prompted