gh-122273: Support PyREPL history on Windows

[vstinner]

• Issue: Support command history in PyREPL on Windows #122273

[vstinner]

cc @devdanzin @ambv @pablogsal

[ambv]

Can this import ever fail?

[vstinner]

I don't know. In case of doubt, I prefer to keep the old behavior: catch and ignore ImportError.

[ambv]

Tested on Windows 11 with PowerShell and cmd.exe, works as intended.

[miss-islington-app]

Thanks @vstinner for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.13.
🐍🍒⛏🤖

[miss-islington-app]

Sorry, @vstinner, I could not cleanly backport this to 3.13 due to a conflict.
Please backport using cherry_picker on command line.

cherry_picker 3c7a90a83146dc6e55f6f9ecd9af0bf9682f98a6 3.13

[bedevere-app]

GH-127289 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.13 branch.

[vstinner]

Merged, thanks for the review @ambv.

[bedevere-bot]

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Buildbot failure ⚠️⚠️⚠️

Hi! The buildbot x86-64 MacOS Intel NoGIL 3.13 has failed when building commit a5741d6.

What do you need to do:

1. Don't panic.
2. Check the buildbot page in the devguide if you don't know what the buildbots are or how they work.
3. Go to the page of the buildbot that failed (https://buildbot.python.org/#/builders/1449/builds/713) and take a look at the build logs.
4. Check if the failure is related to this commit (a5741d6) or if it is a false positive.
5. If the failure is related to this commit, please, reflect that on the issue and make a new Pull Request with a fix.

You can take a look at the buildbot page here:

https://buildbot.python.org/#/builders/1449/builds/713

Failed tests:

• test_threading

Failed subtests:

• test_start_new_thread_failed - test.test_threading.ThreadTests.test_start_new_thread_failed

Summary of the results of the build (if available):

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Click to see traceback logs

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/ec2-user/buildbot/buildarea/3.13.itamaro-macos-intel-aws.nogil/build/Lib/test/test_threading.py", line 1205, in test_start_new_thread_failed
    self.assertEqual(out, b'ok')
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: b"skip\nshouldn't be printed" != b'ok'

[vstinner]

test_start_new_thread_failed - test.test_threading.ThreadTests.test_start_new_thread_failed

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