Pythons Console Module has made it impossible to type the tab key

Question

I started using it on one of my programs a while back. Ever since, whenever I type the tab key on a console (cmd.exe instance) with python running, I get a readline internal

Answer 1

Stop using pyreadline. It's been abandoned. What you're seeing is a known issue, but unless someone takes over pyreadline development, it's unlikely to ever be fixed.