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Python Python Basics (Retired) Ins & Outs Basic I/O

Posted by davigarcia
davigarcia
2,590 Points

Unable to use " or ' characters on Python console at Workspaces

For some reason I'm unable to use the characters ' and " on console. pressing these symbols on my keyboard does not show anything on console. But works properly on editor, at the same workspace.

4 Answers

davigarcia
davigarcia
2,590 Points

Yeah! This is the bug, the keyboard source defined as U.S. International (English). I just changed to U.S. (English) and the console accepts the " and '. This is probably because he is evaluating " and ' as accents (like á, à and â, for my native language).

Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Well, glad you found it. I've sent it to our Workspaces team, though, since, ideally, we'd work with whatever your encoding is. I tried Firefox 31, in a tab instead of popup, and had no problems. Just for the record.

Weird bug. Thanks for finding it!

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Weird. Just tried it here and no problems. What browser are you using?

davigarcia
davigarcia
2,590 Points
davigarcia
davigarcia
2,590 Points

I'm using Firefox 30.0 on Mac OS X 10.9.4. The only detail is that I loaded the Workspace URL on a tab, instead of use the pop-up window created by default. I just notice that there is a update to my Firefox, I'll apply and load the workspace normally (pop-up) to check if the problem persists.

davigarcia
davigarcia
2,590 Points
davigarcia
davigarcia
2,590 Points

Same issue on Firefox 31.0 and using the Worspace pop-up window (default behavior). By the way, I'm from Brazil and I'm using the keyboard as US International source (I can apply for example ü = " + u).