I use the environment variable PYTHONSTARTUP to point to a startup file with the content

import rlcompleter
import readline
readline.parse_and_bind("Ctrl-n: complete")

so that whenever I start python I have autocompletion. This is pretty handy, I guess many people do the same thing.

Now cloud doesn't like readline and if I call cloud.call it fails:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "cloud/cloud.py", line 347, in call
    jid = self.adapter.job_call(parameters,func,args,kwargs)
  File "cloud/transport/adapter.py", line 305, in job_call
    sfunc, sargs, logprefix, logcnt =  self._cloudSerialize(func, [args], ['args'], 'call.')
  File "cloud/transport/adapter.py", line 415, in _cloudSerialize
    self._checkForcedMods()      
  File "cloud/transport/adapter.py", line 405, in _checkForcedMods
    recurse(main,tuple())                
  File "cloud/transport/adapter.py", line 397, in recurse
    self.dependencyManager.inject_module(themod)  
  File "cloud/transport/codedependency.py", line 201, in inject_module
    self.load_module(mname, fp, pathname, stuff)
  File "cloud/transport/codedependency.py", line 402, in load_module
    raise ImportError(fqname)
ImportError: readline

Disabling autocompletion (i.e. not setting PYTHONSTARTUP) solves the problem and cloud runs happily.

By the way, picloud is great, congratulation to the entire team!