New submission from Roy Fox <roy.d....@gmail.com>: Hi,
When you type (not copy-paste!) into an IDLE shell a string literal followed by ( you get a calltip. When the string contains a bad unicode escaping you get an error (see example below), which makes some sense. But when the string is raw, it isn't treated as such, and you may get the same error, though now it doesn't make any sense. Non-raw example: >>> '\xyz'( >>> *** Internal Error: rpc.py:SocketIO.localcall() Object: exec Method: <bound method Executive.get_the_calltip of <idlelib.run.Executive object at 0x021C2910>> Args: ("'\\xyz'",) Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python32\lib\idlelib\rpc.py", line 188, in localcall ret = method(*args, **kwargs) File "C:\Python32\lib\idlelib\run.py", line 324, in get_the_calltip return self.calltip.fetch_tip(name) File "C:\Python32\lib\idlelib\CallTips.py", line 103, in fetch_tip entity = self.get_entity(name) File "C:\Python32\lib\idlelib\CallTips.py", line 112, in get_entity return eval(name, namespace) File "<string>", line 1 SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-2: truncated \xXX escape Raw example: >>> r'\xyz'( >>> *** Internal Error: rpc.py:SocketIO.localcall() Object: exec Method: <bound method Executive.get_the_calltip of <idlelib.run.Executive object at 0x021C2910>> Args: ("'\\xyz'",) Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python32\lib\idlelib\rpc.py", line 188, in localcall ret = method(*args, **kwargs) File "C:\Python32\lib\idlelib\run.py", line 324, in get_the_calltip return self.calltip.fetch_tip(name) File "C:\Python32\lib\idlelib\CallTips.py", line 103, in fetch_tip entity = self.get_entity(name) File "C:\Python32\lib\idlelib\CallTips.py", line 112, in get_entity return eval(name, namespace) File "<string>", line 1 SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-2: truncated \xXX escape ---------- components: IDLE messages: 139961 nosy: Roy.Fox priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: IDLE get_the_calltip mishandles raw strings type: behavior versions: Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12510> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com