Carol Willing added the comment: FWIW: On Mac OS X 10.9.5 using Python 3.4.2, IDLE's interactive shell (started from the IDLE.app icon):
>>>print('hello\b\b\b\b\bHELLO') helloHELLO >From the command line using python3 interactive shell: >>>print('hello\b\b\b\b\bHELLO') HELLO Both return a <class 'str'> for type('hello\b\b\b\b\bHELLO') Interestingly, both behave the same when executing: >>>'hello\b\b\b\b\bHELLO' 'hello\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08HELLO' I'm not sure that IDLE is used much on OS X since the Terminal is easily available. Since K12 education may use it, it would be nice to have consistency across the OSes. ---------- nosy: +willingc _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23220> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com