Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Characters typed before Enter are never sent the the execution process, so there are not even interpreted as a string, let alone a command.
Do you see exactly the following when you start IDLE? Python 3.6.0 (v3.6.0:41df79263a11, Dec 23 2016, 08:06:12) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 If so, there must either be something different about your system, or you are doing something other than what I understand you to have done. The 5 1/2-year-old report in not completely clear to me. The behavior reported could have been affected by subsequent patches. The only restart glitch I have noticed is that previous output very occasionally show up after the >>> prompt. In any case, I cannot (intentionally) fix what I cannot see. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29616> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com