When reading from stdin (with the dialog box) use any partial line on
stdout as the prompt. This makes raw_input() and print "xxx", ; sys.stdin.readline() work a bit more palatable.
diff --git a/Mac/Tools/IDE/PyConsole.py b/Mac/Tools/IDE/PyConsole.py
index fb8b439..ea2cf83 100644
--- a/Mac/Tools/IDE/PyConsole.py
+++ b/Mac/Tools/IDE/PyConsole.py
@@ -340,8 +340,15 @@
def readline(self):
import EasyDialogs
+ # A trick to make the input dialog box a bit more palatable
+ if hasattr(sys.stdout, '_buf'):
+ prompt = sys.stdout._buf
+ else:
+ prompt = ""
+ if not prompt:
+ prompt = "Stdin input:"
sys.stdout.flush()
- rv = EasyDialogs.AskString("")
+ rv = EasyDialogs.AskString(prompt)
if rv is None:
return ""
return rv + '\n'