New submission from Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com>:
When teaching Python, it is common to have someone encounter as code issue where the code looks fine, but it raising a SyntaxError. Usually, the problem is solved by deleting the line and retyping it. I would think that IDLE would be able to detect unprintable characters and deal with them in some way (display a placeholder, elide them from the text, add a warning message, or some such). If IDLE can help out in this regard, it would improve the end-user experience. ---------- assignee: terry.reedy components: IDLE messages: 339097 nosy: rhettinger, terry.reedy priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: IDLE to help with invisible characters versions: Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue36467> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
