Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for bytes literals.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/HyperParser.py b/Lib/idlelib/HyperParser.py
index 38a19f2..4414de7 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/HyperParser.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/HyperParser.py
@@ -232,6 +232,11 @@
pass
else:
# We can't continue after other types of brackets
+ if rawtext[pos] in "'\"":
+ # Scan a string prefix
+ while pos > 0 and rawtext[pos - 1] in "rRbB":
+ pos -= 1
+ last_identifier_pos = pos
break
else:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a7e2534..b9b14a7 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -189,6 +189,8 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for bytes literals.
+
- Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy.
- Issue 10527: make multiprocessing use poll() instead of select() if available.