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Author drbuckle
Recipients drbuckle, mark.dickinson, r.david.murray
Date 2010-08-07.02:30:10
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Message-id <1281148213.42.0.902974992768.issue9519@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I can say that more clearly. The backspace feature for ending a block does not work in IDLE when attempting to end a block that had no indentation. Example:
>>> if a < 4:
          a = 0 # Assume this is end of the 'if' block; that you want to
                # return to column 1, in line below the 'i'. The use of
                # BACKSPACE in IDLE will fail to achieve the desired
                # result and will cause ERROR.

Another example:
>>> if a < 4:
          a = 0
          while b < 7:
                a = a + b  # Assume this is end of 'while' block; that
                           # you want next line to begin directly below
                           # the 'w'. Use of BACKSPACE in IDLE will
                           # work correctly. But if you ultimately want
                           # to end the initial 'if' block, BACKSPACE
                           # will again fail and result in ERROR.
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2010-08-07 02:30:13drbucklesetrecipients: + drbuckle, mark.dickinson, r.david.murray
2010-08-07 02:30:13drbucklesetmessageid: <1281148213.42.0.902974992768.issue9519@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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