import fails on into Python interpreter

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. python (enter the python interpreter)
2. >>> import colorama

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I should see nothing (or rather, just the next interpreter prompt). Instead, 
the command prompt will start scrolling text and won't stop. An infinite loop 
in importing colorama??

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Python 2.7.6 (64 bit) on Windows 7x64, with colorama 0.2.7

Please provide any additional information below.
colorama 0.2.6 works as expected

Original issue reported on code.google.com by w.minc...@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2014 at 2:28

• Merged into: #47

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Wow. Thanks for reporting. I'll take a look, but judging by recent performance 
it won't be very soon. Patches welcome! :-)

Original comment by tart...@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2014 at 2:54

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I looked into it further this morning. Turns out this is only an issue if 
`pyreadline` is installed (current version is 2.0). I don't know enough about 
how colorama and pyreadline work, but merely having the both installed (and not 
both imported) should not be causing any issue.

On the plus side, that makes this issue a duplicate of:
 * https://github.com/pyreadline/pyreadline/issues/18
 * https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1314
 * https://github.com/pyreadline/pyreadline/issues/21
 * Issue #47 here
 * Issue #48 here

Original comment by w.minc...@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2014 at 6:49

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Issue 53 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by tart...@gmail.com on 17 Apr 2014 at 9:11

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merging this into issue #47

Original comment by tart...@gmail.com on 17 Apr 2014 at 9:14

• Changed state: Duplicate