On 3/6/2015 11:20 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
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pp = "💩"
print (pp)
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Try open it in idle3 and you get (at least I get):
$ idle3 ff.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/idle3", line 5, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1562, in main
if flist.open(filename) is None:
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/FileList.py", line 36, in open
edit = self.EditorWindow(self, filename, key)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 126, in __init__
EditorWindow.__init__(self, *args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/EditorWindow.py", line 294, in __init__
if io.loadfile(filename):
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/IOBinding.py", line 236, in loadfile
self.text.insert("1.0", chars)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/Percolator.py", line 25, in insert
self.top.insert(index, chars, tags)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/UndoDelegator.py", line 81, in insert
self.addcmd(InsertCommand(index, chars, tags))
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/UndoDelegator.py", line 116, in addcmd
cmd.do(self.delegate)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/UndoDelegator.py", line 219, in do
text.insert(self.index1, self.chars, self.tags)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/ColorDelegator.py", line 82, in insert
self.delegate.insert(index, chars, tags)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/WidgetRedirector.py", line 148, in __call__
return self.tk_call(self.orig_and_operation + args)
_tkinter.TclError: character U+1f4a9 is above the range (U+0000-U+FFFF) allowed
by Tcl
So who/what is broken?
tcl
The possible workaround is for Idle to translate "💩" to "\U0001f4a9"
(10 chars) before sending it to tk.
But some perspective. In the console interpreter:
>>> print("\U0001f4a9")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Programs\Python34\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\U0001f4a9'
in posit
ion 0: character maps to <undefined>
So what is broken? Windows Command Prompt.
More perspective. tk/Idle *will* print *something* for every BMP char.
Command Prompt will not. It does not even do ucs-2 correctly. So
which is more broken? Windows Command Prompt. Who has perhaps
1,000,000 times more resources, Microsoft? or the tcl/tk group? I think
we all know.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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