raw_input broken in eclipse

[adamlofts]

There are a few constructs in django like

response = raw_input()
if response == 'yes':
 do_stuff()

In eclipse on windows the '\r' is not stripped out of the string so the equality fails ('yes' != 'yes\r'). This means django refuses to delete my test database if i abort the tests in the middle. See: ​http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-March/482847.html

I suggest something like:

def _django_raw_input():
  return raw_input.replace('\r', '')
raw_input = _django_raw_input

I will write a patch if someone recommends the correct solution.

[adamlofts]

I was perhaps a little premature reporting this since it isn't really django's fault. If anyone is interested: finishing the line with ctrl-enter seems to fix the problem (i'm a bit new to windows!). Feel free to close if you don't think its a problem.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

This sounds like its an issue with the way eclipse (or PyDev) is handling input; AFAIK, there shouldn't be any platform specific gotchas with raw_input() the way we are using it.