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Author gvanrossum
Recipients John Smith, gvanrossum, taleinat, terry.reedy
Date 2020-02-23.17:52:37
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It sounds like either an old implementation restriction or an old misguided attempt at keeping the IDLE console clean. I’m with Tal, let’s fix it and make it more like regular Python. Thanks John for taking the time to report this so clearly.
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