[issue36219] Add edit option in IDLE to convert smart quotes to ascii quotes

[Raymond Hettinger]

New submission from Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com>:

Some of my students routinely have to copy code samples from PDF documents where the regular Python acceptable ASCII quotation marks have been replaced by smart quotes.  Let's add an Edit menu option to fix smart-quotes.

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assignee: terry.reedy
components: IDLE
messages: 337350
nosy: rhettinger, terry.reedy
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Add edit option in IDLE to convert smart quotes to ascii quotes
versions: Python 3.8

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