From 96820cea3eb39d31798efcbcb4b3fb1ba667e3d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aurora Lanes <58722611+opensource-assist@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 19:50:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added better write permission handling for .python_history

---
 Lib/site.py | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py
index 2c717987559..3bb55a5a086 100644
--- a/Lib/site.py
+++ b/Lib/site.py
@@ -448,6 +448,16 @@ def enablerlcompleter():
                     # home directory does not exist or is not writable
                     # https://bugs.python.org/issue19891
                     pass
+                except OSError:
+                    if sys.platform == "linux" and not os.access(history, os.W_OK):
+                        if os.getuid() == 0:
+                            chattrcmd = "chattr -i " + history
+                            os.system(chattrcmd)
+                        else
+                            chattrmsg = "Permission error!, try running 'chattr -i " + history + "'"
+                            print(chattrmsg)
+                    else
+                        print("An error occured while writing to .python_history")
 
             atexit.register(write_history)