Roger Serwy roger.se...@gmail.com added the comment:
With IDLE 3.2 on Ubuntu 11.04, this is not a problem. An error box pops up:
SyntaxError
(unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-3:
truncated \xXX escape
With IDLE 2.7.1 on Ubuntu 11.04, the console gives the
Roundup Robot devn...@psf.upfronthosting.co.za added the comment:
New changeset e277fe8380e0 by Ned Deily in branch '2.7':
Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash in 2.7 when given strings with
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e277fe8380e0
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nosy: +python-dev
Ned Deily n...@acm.org added the comment:
Thank for the suggestion! BTW, a similar change had been recently made to
Python 3 for Issue9871 for invalid byte strings.
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assignee: - ned.deily
nosy: +ned.deily
resolution: - fixed
stage: - committed/rejected
status: open - closed
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amaur...@gmail.com added the comment:
When running IDLE in a console, I get the error:
Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File c:\prod\python\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py, line 1410, in __call__
return self.func(*args)
File
New submission from royf roy.d@gmail.com:
1. Create a file containing this line:
'\xdk'
2. Open the file for editing in IDLE 2.6.4. Banner:
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
3. Run Module (F5) - Bug#1: no error is shown
4. Run Module 7
