Daniel Diniz <aja...@gmail.com> added the comment: This is about a disparity between IDLE and the python shell. I'm guessing different encodings are to blame here and that this is invalid.
The disparity is present in an UCS4 build (IDLE shows UCS2-like behavior[1], maybe because it's using UTF8?). [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-July/080886.html ---------- nosy: +ajaksu2 title: IDLE shell doesn't accept non ascii char input -> IDLE shell gives different len() of unicode strings compared to Python shell versions: +Python 2.6 -Python 2.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1542677> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com