Re: I found strange thing while studying through idle

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On 2018-03-09 03:57, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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In IDLE 3.5 on Linux, I get this:

print('hello\rpython')

hello\rpython

Curiously, that's not a backslash r, it's actually a carriage return:
when I copy and paste it in this text, the editor treated it as a new
line character:

# direct copy and paste becomes this in my editor

print('hello\rpython')

hello
python


But it is possible that due to differences between platforms, the OP's
version of IDLE doesn't display a carriage return as \r but rather as an
invisible zero-width space.

IDLE 3.6 on Windows, it looks like this:

hellopython

but when I copy and paste it into an editor I get:

hello
python
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