Steve added the comment: Although surrounding the escapes with \x01 and \x02 worked to correctly remove the message while doing a reverse-i-search (thus preserving the original line), the input line measurement still appears to be incorrect as demonstated with the following actions:
[steve@localhost ~]$ python Python 2.7.5 (default, Nov 12 2013, 16:18:42) [GCC 4.8.2 20131017 (Red Hat 4.8.2-1)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.ps1 = '\x01\033[32m>>> \033[0m\x02' >>> # on the next line, press the up arrow to get this line and then backspace, >>> over the entire prompt ... #<-- backspaced up until here ... ...again, not a big deal, just annoying when deleting word with a repeated 'alt+backspace' or ctrl+w ---------- status: closed -> open _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20359> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
