[New-bugs-announce] [issue36467] IDLE to help with invisible characters

[Raymond Hettinger]

New submission from Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com>:

When teaching Python, it is common to have someone encounter as code issue where the code looks fine, but it raising a SyntaxError.   Usually, the problem is solved by deleting the line and retyping it.

I would think that IDLE would be able to detect unprintable characters and deal with them in some way (display a placeholder, elide them from the text, add a warning message, or some such).  If IDLE can help out in this regard, it would improve the end-user experience.

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assignee: terry.reedy
components: IDLE
messages: 339097
nosy: rhettinger, terry.reedy
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: IDLE to help with invisible characters
versions: Python 3.8

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