[New-bugs-announce] [issue35099] IDLE: say more about Shell - console differences

[Terry J. Reedy]

New submission from Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>:

Differences added in initial PR:
* threading.activeCount()`` returns 2 instead of 1;
* run user code in separate process;
* user-created subprocesses do not inherit sys.stdxxx objects;
  must run IDLE from console for such to have i/o connection;
* Shell ignores anything after first statement in pasted code.

Dependencies
Issue #23220 added the "IDLE-console differences" subsection to IDLE doc.
Discussing 'Shell not a terminal' left for another patch.

Issue 33000 is about finite versus infinite buffer.

Or should any of these be in new Shell subsection?

----------
assignee: terry.reedy
components: IDLE
messages: 328785
nosy: terry.reedy
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: IDLE: say more about Shell - console differences
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8

_______________________________________
Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org>
<https://bugs.python.org/issue35099>
_______________________________________