Python 3.4.2 Typing Cyrillic Fails

This is a really bizarre problem. I don't know where to start. I am on OS X, Terminal.app, UTF-8. If I type cyrillic in bash, it works fine. If I open python2.7, I can type cyrilli

Solution 1:

Thanks to Martijn Pieters who solved this issue for me (see comments above). This does appear to be an issue with Macports. I did not want to use homebrew for other reasons, but the buildout.python project seems to do the trick.