diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.12.1.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.12.1.bb
index 771902cd2c..b4916d8cef 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.12.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.12.1.bb
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ do_configure:prepend () {
     cat > ${B}/Modules/Setup.local << EOF
 *disabled*
 ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'gdbm', '', '_gdbm _dbm', d)}
-${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'readline', '', 'readline', d)}
+${@bb.utils.contains_any('PACKAGECONFIG', 'readline editline', '', 'readline', d)}
 ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'tk', '', '_tkinter', d)}
 EOF
 }