REPL import tab completion moves cursor backward

Bug report

Bug description:

When tab completing ambiguous imports in the Python REPL, pressing tab once will insert the longest unambiguous completion and display "[ complete but not unique ]". Pressing tab a second time will show all the possibilities.

In Ghostty, when you press tab the second time, the cursor moves one cell to the left. This happens with cursor-style = bar as well as the default block cursor.

I reproduced this in Ghostty with both fish shell and bash. I could not reproduce this in Zed's integrated terminal (with a bar cursor) or Terminal.app (with a block cursor).

Originally posted by @injust in https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/11131

I initially reported this issue to Ghostty, and the maintainer's response was:

This is a bug in Terminal.app in how it handles CUB with the cursor in the pending wrap state. Or, a bug in Python's readline in how it calculates the amount to move the cursor back. Your bug reproduces on xterm, and Ghostty matches xterm. Specifically, CUB moves exactly n cells back ignoring pending wrap in xterm and Ghostty matches this. In Terminal.app, CUB subtracts one when it is in the pending wrap state.

Since the bug reproduces in both Ghostty and xterm, it might be a bug in the Python REPL.

I captured the bug in this asciicast: https://github.com/user-attachments/files/25683940/ascii.cast.json

CPython versions tested on:

3.14

Operating systems tested on:

macOS

Linked PRs

• gh-145727

Start with the Python REPL's readline import-completion behavior and review the linked asciicast to reproduce the second-tab cursor movement. Compare the cursor position before and after ambiguous completion in a terminal; done when repeated tab completion no longer moves the cursor backward.