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Author	willingc
Recipients	Al.Sweigart, willingc
Date	2015-01-11.02:31:09
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FWIW: On Mac OS X 10.9.5 using Python 3.4.2, IDLE's interactive shell (started from the IDLE.app icon): >>>print('hello\b\b\b\b\bHELLO') helloHELLO From the command line using python3 interactive shell: >>>print('hello\b\b\b\b\bHELLO') HELLO Both return a <class 'str'> for type('hello\b\b\b\b\bHELLO') Interestingly, both behave the same when executing: >>>'hello\b\b\b\b\bHELLO' 'hello\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08HELLO' I'm not sure that IDLE is used much on OS X since the Terminal is easily available. Since K12 education may use it, it would be nice to have consistency across the OSes.

FWIW: On Mac OS X 10.9.5 using Python 3.4.2, IDLE's interactive shell (started from the IDLE.app icon):

>>>print('hello\b\b\b\b\bHELLO')
helloHELLO

From the command line using python3 interactive shell:
>>>print('hello\b\b\b\b\bHELLO')
HELLO

Both return a <class 'str'> for type('hello\b\b\b\b\bHELLO') 
Interestingly, both behave the same when executing:
>>>'hello\b\b\b\b\bHELLO'
'hello\x08\x08\x08\x08\x08HELLO'


I'm not sure that IDLE is used much on OS X since the Terminal is easily available. Since K12 education may use it, it would be nice to have consistency across the OSes.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2015-01-11 02:31:10	willingc	set	recipients: + willingc, Al.Sweigart
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