[issue19808] IDLE applies syntax highlighting to user input in its shell

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Still a problem in 3.6. -- assignee: -> terry.reedy stage: -> test needed versions: +Python 3.6, Python 3.7 -Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker

[issue19808] IDLE applies syntax highlighting to user input in its shell

Peter Otten added the comment: I think the prompt can easily be treated differently because it is written to stderr. I don't see a difference for user input between input() and raw_input() on Linux with Python 2.7.2+ -- syntax-highlighting is applied to both. --

[issue19808] IDLE applies syntax highlighting to user input in its shell

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[issue19808] IDLE applies syntax highlighting to user input in its shell

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: On a freshly booted machine, I retried 2.7.6/Windows/raw_input() 'for all the' and indeed I now see 'for' and 'all' colored. The colorizing is done char by char. 'fo' is black, 'for' turns orange, 'forr' turns black again. Similarly, 'al' is black, 'all is

[issue19808] IDLE applies syntax highlighting to user input in its shell

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I checked and Idle does not color code the prompt. In 2.7, it only color-codes the response to input(prompt), which is eval-ed as Python code, but not the response to raw_input(prompt). (In 2.7, the code and input displayed raises SyntaxError.) So the bug in

[issue19808] IDLE applies syntax highlighting to user input in its shell

Changes by Peter Otten __pete...@web.de: -- title: IDLE applys syntax highlighting to user input in its shell - IDLE applies syntax highlighting to user input in its shell ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19808