Handle no readline on Windows

pytest-dev · Jan 31, 2025 · acc4b8f · acc4b8f
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diff --git a/src/_pytest/capture.py b/src/_pytest/capture.py
@@ -91,7 +91,10 @@ def _readline_workaround() -> None:
     workaround consists of importing readline here, so we already worked around
     the issue by the time we could check if we need to.
     """
-    import readline  # noqa: F401
+    try:
+        import readline  # noqa: F401
+    except ImportError:
+        pass
 
 
 def _windowsconsoleio_workaround(stream: TextIO) -> None:

diff --git a/testing/test_capture.py b/testing/test_capture.py
@@ -1684,8 +1684,7 @@ def pytest_terminal_summary(config):
 
         capture.resume_global_capture()
     """)
-    import readline
-
+    readline = pytest.importorskip("readline")
     backend = getattr(readline, "backend", readline.__doc__)  # added in Python 3.13
     print(f"Readline backend: {backend}")