idle and the devil

[Max]

"Siegfried Gonzi" <siegfried.gonzi at kfunigraz.ac.at> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:abji97$q7q$1 at newsreader1.netway.at...
> I thought it is better to calm down before posting some angry emails to
the
[..]
> have got installed Python 2.2 on my Windows XP laptop. I work nearly every
> day with Python/idle and everything works fine but the nasty behavior
which
> sometimes occur: When I mark text in the idle editor (not the command
line)
> and use "copy and paste", it often happens that this text is not only
placed
> at the intented place, it also clutters up the complete file at random
> places. This often destroys every indentation (yesterday I had the
problem,
>
> Maybe it has to do with XP itself, because this often appeared in Emacs
too
>

I'm using Python (and wxPython) under Windows XP Professional, i have a weel
mouse, and i _never_ experienced your problem.  Maybe some laptop feature
(some propertary small software to perform specific functions...) can
interfere with the system cun&paste?