# HG changeset patch
# User Brendan Cully <brendan@kublai.com>
# Date 2008-12-10 01:01:14
# Node ID 0a27d0db256d995fb386509ceff3901509e511b4
# Parent  85dc88630beb98ea5bc6df7f0aecb1e4273e5e0a

issue1419: catch strange readline import error on windows

diff --git a/mercurial/ui.py b/mercurial/ui.py
--- a/mercurial/ui.py
+++ b/mercurial/ui.py
@@ -407,7 +407,8 @@ class ui(object):
                 import readline
                 # force demandimport to really load the module
                 readline.read_history_file
-            except ImportError:
+                # windows sometimes raises something other than ImportError
+            except Exception:
                 pass
         line = raw_input(prompt)
         # When stdin is in binary mode on Windows, it can cause