Python getting stuck

[Westley Martínez]

On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 17:10 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Corey Richardson <kb1pkl at aim.com>
> wrote:
>         On 02/26/2011 06:55 PM, Shanush Premathasarathan wrote:
>         > Hi All,
>         >
>         > When I use cut, copy, paste, and any keyboard shortcuts,
>         Python freezes and I am unable to use Python. Please Help as
>         quick as possible!!!
>         
>         
>         What OS? Are you using the standard interpreter? Are you using
>         IDLE,
>         bpython, etc? What key combination are you using?
>         
>         My instinctive guess is that you are trying to Ctrl-C to copy
>         something
>         in the interpreter, which actually just raises a
>         KeyboardInterrupt
>         exception. However your additional symptoms seem to indicate
>         otherwise.
>         
>         A more verbose description is needed.
>         --
>         Corey Richardson
>         
>         --
>         http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>         
> 
> Agreed, a more detailed description would greatly help us help you,
> but if you're in the standard windows terminal emulator widget
> (command.com, cmd.exe, powershell), then don't click in the window
> without first turning on "quick edit" mode.  Otherwise the emulator
> will just act silly.
> 
> It's kind of astonishing that any computer company would allow such an
> annoying bug to live so long.
> 
It's a feature, not a bug.