[issue36219] Add edit option in IDLE to convert smart quotes to ascii quotes

Cheryl Sabella added the comment: Would it be worthwhile to automatically convert the text when it's being pasted or would there be a scenario where it would be desirable to keep these characters in the text? It seems the point here is that the user wouldn't even realize that the quotes (or

[issue36219] Add edit option in IDLE to convert smart quotes to ascii quotes

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Also dashes and hyphens to minuses and non-breaking spaces to normal spaces. -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker ___

[issue36219] Add edit option in IDLE to convert smart quotes to ascii quotes

New submission from Raymond Hettinger : Some of my students routinely have to copy code samples from PDF documents where the regular Python acceptable ASCII quotation marks have been replaced by smart quotes. Let's add an Edit menu option to fix smart-quotes. -- assignee: terry.reedy