Steve Dower added the comment: > IIRC, ANSI is somewhat incompatible with sending random binary gibberish to > the screen, as people accidentally do with TYPE sometimes :) But the random > binary gibberish may contain ANSI control sequences... That's why I'm > negative on making it a default.
I don't actually know how big a deal this would be. I seem to get identical results from "print(''.join(chr(x) for x in range(32)))" both with and without the VT100 flag set, though of course "print('\033[91m')" behaves differently. But given "on by default" isn't popular, and "off by default" implies adding new public API that is already available either as a short ctypes snippet or a number of 3rd-party libraries, I think we should consider this rejected. For future reference, the python-ideas thread starts with https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2016-December/044033.html ---------- resolution: -> rejected status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29059> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com