Python consoles don't accept non-ascii unicode characters as first characters in input calls or variable names

[spyder-bot]

From [email protected] on 2015-01-01T16:22:47Z

Spyder Version: 2.3.2
Python Version: 3.4.2
Qt Version : 4.8.6, PyQt4 (API v2) 4.10.4 on Darwin
pyflakes >=0.6.0: 0.8.1 (OK)
pep8 >=0.6 : None (NOK)
IPython >=0.13 : 2.3.1 (OK)
zmq >=2.1.11 : 14.4.1 (OK)
pygments >=1.6 : 2.0.1 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1 : 0.14.1 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.2.3 (OK)
psutil >=0.3 : 2.1.1 (OK)
rope >=0.9.2 : 0.9.4-1 (OK)
matplotlib >=1.0: 1.4.0 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.0 : 0.7.5 (OK)
pylint >=0.25 : None (NOK)

What steps will reproduce the problem?

a_string = input("Enter a string: ")
Enter a string: abcαβγ

a_string
'abcαβγ'
b_string = input("Enter a string: ")
Enter a string: αβγabc
b_string
'abc'

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

a_string gives the expected output
I expected b_string to be αβγabc

Please provide any additional information below

. this does not happen in other IDEs (they have the expected output for b_string)

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=2100

[spyder-bot]

From ccordoba12 on 2015-01-01T14:03:08Z

I don't know what happens with non-ascii chars but they are not accepted by our Python consoles as first characters in input calls and as variable names too. I noticed this bug sometime ago but I've been unable to fix it.

And please, for the next time, wait until we give you an answer here before posting in StackOverflow. Doing more noise and making us waste our time it's not going to solve your problems faster.

In the mean time, I'd suggest you to install and use the IPython console.

Summary: Python consoles don't accept non-ascii unicode characters as first characters in input calls or variable names (was: input() truncates leading non-ascii unicode )
Status: Accepted
Labels: MS-v2.3.3 Cat-Console

[spyder-bot]

From [email protected] on 2015-01-01T14:38:57Z

it was stackoverflow that informed me that it was a spyder problem, rather than a mac, anaconda, or python3 problem, or something I was doing wrong. I don't mean to waste anyone's time. if you want to answer the question with "this is a known problem", that would be fine.

[spyder-bot]

From ccordoba12 on 2015-01-01T14:45:56Z

Don't worry about it, sometimes it's just annoying to see things reported in two different places, to both which I'm the only one that's giving an answer.

[spyder-bot]

From ccordoba12 on 2015-01-08T15:00:52Z

Labels: -MS-v2.3.3 MS-v2.4

[ccordoba12]

Closing because the Python console is going to be removed in Spyder 3.2.

Please see issue #4524 for our reasons to do this.