[issue14958] IDLE 3 and PEP414 - highlighting unicode literals

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 0dbdb85fd141 by Ned Deily in branch '2.7': Issue #14958: backport to 2.7.x from 3.3 (patch by Roger Serwy) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0dbdb85fd141 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue14958] IDLE 3 and PEP414 - highlighting unicode literals

Roger Serwy added the comment: Attached is a backport to 2.7. -- keywords: +patch versions: +Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file25778/issue14958_27.patch ___ Python tracker _

[issue14958] IDLE 3 and PEP414 - highlighting unicode literals

Ned Deily added the comment: It could be. But perhaps its absence will be another incentive to move to Python 3.3. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue14958] IDLE 3 and PEP414 - highlighting unicode literals

Roger Serwy added the comment: Should the patch be partially back-ported to 2.7 as well given that IDLE 2 doesn't highlight two-character prefixes? -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue14958] IDLE 3 and PEP414 - highlighting unicode literals

Changes by Ned Deily : -- versions: -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.py

[issue14958] IDLE 3 and PEP414 - highlighting unicode literals

Ned Deily added the comment: It turns out that the previous and current versions of IDLE syntax highlighting did not recognize literals with valid two-character prefixes, like "ur" or "br". Besides restoring "ur", 3.3 also added "rb" to the existing "br" prefixes. The applied patch explicit

[issue14958] IDLE 3 and PEP414 - highlighting unicode literals

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 94a5bf416e50 by Ned Deily in branch 'default': Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/94a5bf416e50 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python trac

[issue14958] IDLE 3 and PEP414 - highlighting unicode literals

New submission from Roger Serwy : Issue8641 addressed the problem of not highlighting byte literals, but dropped Unicode literals, as it should have. This happened months before the acceptance of PEP414. IDLE 3 should now highlight u"" as well as b"", as well as valid combinations with r"".