Python interpreter within MantidPlot doesn't behave properly on Mac

[Mathieu Doucet]

The behavior of the python editor in MantidPlot doesn't behave properly on Mac. Simple scripts that work on Linux won't execute on Mac. For example, the following two lines won't execute:

import sys print "got it"

After executing this, one gets "SyntaxError on line 1: "invalid syntax". When adding a comment line before the import statement, the script completes "successfully", but the message is never printed. Clearly there's something wrong here. The error reporting is also not behaving the same as on Linux.

[Mathieu Doucet]

For a real example, go here and copy and paste the example script in the python editor in MantidPlot. It works fine on Windows and Linux, but not on Mac.

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [6048]) Fix the Python interpreter window on the Mac. The problem was with the line endings only containing '\r' which were removed by the MantidPlot code (it has always done this). Now it normalises the line endings correctly before sending the code to Python. Re #1493

[Anders Markvardsen]

It would be more appropriate for someone with a Mac to test this ticket

[Steve Williams]

Both the Python script and immediate window work

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​2340