On 2018-01-28, Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've noticed it as well. I suspect it's from the Windows universe where > it's common to snip a bit of the screen which isn't pure text when asking > about some problematic GUI thing which is causing problems.
It's definitely a Windows thing. Most Windows uses don't even understand the concept of plain text vs. a bitmap picture of some text being displayed by an app. Just be glad that they're using a screen capture utilitly and not taking a picture of thier screen with their phone. [Yes, I've dealt with problem reports from customers where that's what they send.] -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list