[3.12] gh-109151: Enable readline in the sqlite3 CLI (GH-109152) (#110352)

gh-109151: Enable readline in the sqlite3 CLI (GH-109152)
(cherry picked from commit 254e30c)

Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

Lib/sqlite3/__main__.py

@@ -116,6 +116,10 @@ def main(*args):
         else:
             # No SQL provided; start the REPL.
             console = SqliteInteractiveConsole(con)
+            try:
+                import readline
+            except ImportError:
+                pass
             console.interact(banner, exitmsg="")
     finally:
         con.close()

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-09-08-19-44-01.gh-issue-109151.GkzkQu.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Enable ``readline`` editing features in the :ref:`sqlite3 command-line interface <sqlite3-cli>` (``python -m sqlite3``).