Message 334400 - Python tracker

Message334400

Author	martin.panter
Recipients	Dude Roast, martin.panter, terry.reedy
Date	2019-01-26.21:12:37
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I suspect Idle just passes control characters directly to an underlying Text or similar TK widget. As far as I know, TK only documents behaviour for tabs and newlines, not other control characters. Last time this was brought up, Terry added a sentence under <https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/idle.html#user-output-in-shell>, third paragraph, about this: “Newline characters cause following text to appear on a new line, but other control characters are either replaced with a box or deleted.”

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I suspect Idle just passes control characters directly to an underlying Text or similar TK widget. As far as I know, TK only documents behaviour for tabs and newlines, not other control characters.

Last time this was brought up, Terry added a sentence under <https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/idle.html#user-output-in-shell>, third paragraph, about this:

“Newline characters cause following text to appear on a new line, but other control characters are either replaced with a box or deleted.”

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Date	User	Action	Args
2019-01-26 21:12:38	martin.panter	set	recipients: + martin.panter, terry.reedy, Dude Roast
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