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Author	Al.Sweigart
Recipients	Al.Sweigart
Date	2015-01-11.00:54:46
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<[email protected]>
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IDLE cannot display the \b backspace character correctly. From IDLE's interactive shell: >>> print('hello\b\b\b\b\bHELLO') hello◙◙◙◙◙HELLO Whereas from cmd: >>> print('hello\b\b\b\b\bHELLO') HELLO

IDLE cannot display the \b backspace character correctly. From IDLE's interactive shell:

>>> print('hello\b\b\b\b\bHELLO')
hello◙◙◙◙◙HELLO

Whereas from cmd:

>>> print('hello\b\b\b\b\bHELLO')
HELLO

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Date	User	Action	Args
2015-01-11 00:54:47	Al.Sweigart	set	recipients: + Al.Sweigart
2015-01-11 00:54:47	Al.Sweigart	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2015-01-11 00:54:47	Al.Sweigart	link	issue23220 messages
2015-01-11 00:54:46	Al.Sweigart	create