From 1e7efbc449cc56d567948d74c3c38236b407b690 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2022 10:20:48 -0700 Subject: IDLE doc: Tweek RESTART and Windows console start (GH-94530) (cherry picked from commit 39c29f753e6d6f390dce5a36613c1e03f43d28ea) Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy --- Doc/library/idle.rst | 6 ++++-- Lib/idlelib/help.html | 8 +++++--- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/idle.rst b/Doc/library/idle.rst index a4c9b1d..e91ec40 100644 --- a/Doc/library/idle.rst +++ b/Doc/library/idle.rst @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ One may edit pasted code first. If one pastes more than one statement into Shell, the result will be a :exc:`SyntaxError` when multiple statements are compiled as if they were one. -Lines containing ``'RESTART'`` mean that the user execution process has been +Lines containing ``RESTART`` mean that the user execution process has been re-started. This occurs when the user execution process has crashed, when one requests a restart on the Shell menu, or when one runs code in an editor window. @@ -775,7 +775,9 @@ IDLE's standard stream replacements are not inherited by subprocesses created in the execution process, whether directly by user code or by modules such as multiprocessing. If such subprocess use ``input`` from sys.stdin or ``print`` or ``write`` to sys.stdout or sys.stderr, -IDLE should be started in a command line window. The secondary subprocess +IDLE should be started in a command line window. (On Windows, +use ``python`` or ``py`` rather than ``pythonw`` or ``pyw``.) +The secondary subprocess will then be attached to that window for input and output. If ``sys`` is reset by user code, such as with ``importlib.reload(sys)``, diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/help.html b/Lib/idlelib/help.html index 95b59b9..e8e7d28 100644 --- a/Lib/idlelib/help.html +++ b/Lib/idlelib/help.html @@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ until one hits Return, as sp One may edit pasted code first. If one pastes more than one statement into Shell, the result will be a SyntaxError when multiple statements are compiled as if they were one.

-

Lines containing`’RESTART’` mean that the user execution process has been +

Lines containing RESTART mean that the user execution process has been re-started. This occurs when the user execution process has crashed, when one requests a restart on the Shell menu, or when one runs code in an editor window.

@@ -821,7 +821,9 @@ and input from sys.stdin or print or write to sys.stdout or sys.stderr, -IDLE should be started in a command line window. The secondary subprocess +IDLE should be started in a command line window. (On Windows, +use python or py rather than pythonw or pyw.) +The secondary subprocess will then be attached to that window for input and output.

If sys is reset by user code, such as with importlib.reload(sys), IDLE’s changes are lost and input from the keyboard and output to the screen @@ -1139,7 +1141,7 @@ also used for testing.



- Last updated on Jun 26, 2022. + Last updated on Jul 03, 2022. Found a bug?
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