idle and the devil

[Kevin Altis]

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ka

"Siegfried Gonzi" <siegfried.gonzi at kfunigraz.ac.at> wrote in message
news:abji97$q7q$1 at newsreader1.netway.at...
> I thought it is better to calm down before posting some angry emails to
the
> developers of idle. Yes I know the idle is free (and it is not that bad).
I
> 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,
> after manually deleting the in addition wrong pasted code, that a return
was
> placed in a for loop and it took me quite a while to find out that the
> integral is wrong due to the beformentioned misalignment).
>
> Maybe it has to do with XP itself, because this often appeared in Emacs
too
> and this was the reason to delete Emacs from my hard disc; the Python case
> is harder because I need Python for my daily work.
>
>
> I could not find any pointers in the deja news archive because I have got
no
> idea under what keyword I should try to search.
>
>
> Thanks,
> S. Gonzi
>
>