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test_repl.test_toplevel_contextvars_async fails under Fish in a VS Code terminal #137569

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This is on VS Code insiders on Windows with a checkout in WSL.

➲ ./python -m test test_repl
Using random seed: 506736770
0:00:00 load avg: 0.01 Run 1 test sequentially in a single process
0:00:00 load avg: 0.01 [1/1] test_repl
test test_repl failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/brett/Repositories/python/cpython/Lib/test/test_repl.py", line 339, in test_toplevel_contextvars_async
    self.assertIn(expected, output, expected)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: 'toplevel contextvar test: ok' not found in 'asyncio REPL 3.15.0a0 (heads/main-dirty:d7dbde89588, Aug  8 2025, 14:49:47) [Clang 14.0.6 ] on linux\nUse "await" directly instead of "asyncio.run()".\nType "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.\nException in thread Interactive thread:\nexiting asyncio REPL...\nTraceback (most recent call last):\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n  File "/home/brett/Repositories/python/cpython/Lib/runpy.py", line 198, in _run_module_as_main\n    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,\n                     "__main__", mod_spec)\n  File "/home/brett/Repositories/python/cpython/Lib/threading.py", line 1074, in _bootstrap_inner\n    self._context.run(self.run)\n    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^\n  File "/home/brett/Repositories/python/cpython/Lib/asyncio/__main__.py", line 105, in run\n    exec(startup_code, console.locals)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File "/home/brett/.vscode-server-insiders/data/User/workspaceStorage/0abd4bd2132dfcbfde5adbe8d7792ee2/ms-python.python/pythonrc.py", line 5, in <module>\n    import readline\nModuleNotFoundError: No module named \'readline\'\n  File "/home/brett/Repositories/python/cpython/Lib/runpy.py", line 88, in _run_code\n    exec(code, run_globals)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File "/home/brett/Repositories/python/cpython/Lib/asyncio/__main__.py", line 245, in <module>\n    sys.exit(return_code)\n    ~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^\nSystemExit: 0\n>>> >>> >>> ...   File "<stdin>", line 2\n    await set_var()\n    ^^^^^\nSyntaxError: invalid syntax\n>>> toplevel contextvar test: failed\n>>> \n' : toplevel contextvar test: ok

0:00:00 load avg: 0.17 [1/1/1] test_repl failed (1 failure)

== Tests result: FAILURE ==

1 test failed:
    test_repl

Total duration: 846 ms
Total tests: run=13 failures=1
Total test files: run=1/1 failed=1
Result: FAILURE

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

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