On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Chris Warrick <kwpol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 January 2018 at 20:19, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The vanilla Windows console (conhost.exe IIRC) is far from ideal for >> copying and pasting from > > It’s been fixed in recent Windows 10 releases (select and Ctrl+C works now).
Haven't used it, but that's good news at least. >> Windows error popups are *impossible* to copy text from. > > Most standard error popups support pressing Ctrl+C to copy the text > displayed in them. Really? Most? That would be a HUGE improvement. Historically, only a handful have actually had selectable text. And really, it has to be not just the core Windows error popups, but application ones as well; so it has to be the underlying message-box API that supports it. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list