[issue24035] When Caps Locked, + alpha-character still displayed as uppercase

eryksun added the comment: > It looks like this is a bug in pyreadlines as suggested by > eryksun, but for a different reason. As I said before, it reads keyboard input events at a lower level via ReadConsoleInputW, instead of calling ReadConsoleW to read the input buffer as a text stream. To

[issue24035] When Caps Locked, + alpha-character still displayed as uppercase

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[issue24035] When Caps Locked, + alpha-character still displayed as uppercase

James added the comment: When I start the interpreter with the -S switch, the problem goes away. Thanks for looking into it, and I apologize for the false alarm! -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue24035] When Caps Locked, + alpha-character still displayed as uppercase

James Edwards added the comment: It looks like this is a bug in pyreadlines as suggested by eryksun, but for a different reason. Even though the Caps Lock + Shift combination is recognized correctly (as lower case), the logic in the pyreadlines module forces it to upper case. See lines 44-45

[issue24035] When Caps Locked, + alpha-character still displayed as uppercase

James Edwards added the comment: If you start the interactive interpreter with the -S switch, e.g. >python.exe -S Do you still see this behavior? -- nosy: +jedwards ___ Python tracker

[issue24035] When Caps Locked, + alpha-character still displayed as uppercase

eryksun added the comment: Are you using pyreadline? It's commonly used with IPython. Pyreadline hooks PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer to provide readline functionality in the REPL. Since it accesses the console input via ReadConsoleInputW events instead of using ReadConsoleW, it wouldn't surpris

[issue24035] When Caps Locked, + alpha-character still displayed as uppercase

Tim Golden added the comment: Perhaps unsurprisingly, I can't reproduce this on Python 2.7.9 32-bit running on Win7 Home Premium. Python doesn't handle CapsLock/Shift interaction directly: it just gets what it gets from the underlying OS or framework. So I'm at a loss to know what might caus

[issue24035] When Caps Locked, + alpha-character still displayed as uppercase

Changes by SilentGhost : -- components: +Windows nosy: +paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyth

[issue24035] When Caps Locked, + alpha-character still displayed as uppercase

New submission from James: Referring to Python 2.7 running on Windows (7/8): At the interactive interpreter, if either 1) Caps are Locked OR 2) is held while an alpha-character is selected, the character is output and displayed as uppercase, as one would expect. However, in Python 2.7, when