[Idle-dev] idle eats code

[Christoph.Herzog@urz.uni-heidelberg.de]

>>[problem: Python crashes sometimes while editing
>> (or trying to save?)  .py file, setting file to 0 byte]

On 10 Jul 2001, at 9:58, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Are you trying to attempt (maybe accidentally) to paste a non-ASCII
> character?  I've seen problems with saving files containing a
> non-ASCII character.
> 
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

Yes, using a German keyboard, I cannot rule that out completely. 
Also using "non-escaped" non-Ascii characters in a string-literal in 
IDLE  may under certain circumstances disturb IDLE's colorizing 
engine, so that has to be avoided.
Thank you
Christoph