bug#50503: [PATCH] Properly encode all strings sent to the Python shell

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:

> Some Python shell functions naively assume that '''<arbitrary text>'''
> is valid Python code, which is not true, say, if the arbitrary text
> ends with a quote sign.  This patch fixes this.

Thanks; pushed to Emacs 28.

> Some more remarks:
>
> - python.el now depends on Emacs 28 because it uses 'format-prompt' and
>   'comint-max-line-length' (luckily, only the latter is my fault).  Is
>   this a problem?

Yes -- that was a mistake, so I've now reverted the usage of
format-prompt here.

> - There are some long-obsolete functions (since say Emacs 24) that I
>   would like to delete.  One example is 'python-send-string' which is
>   easy to confuse with the 'python-shell-send-string', which is real
>   deal.  What are the rules for this?

We don't have any specific rules here, but I think we can start removing
Emacs 24.x obsoletions when we get to Emacs 29.

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