Pasting code from external editor into Python scripting causes syntax errors

[Martyn Gigg]

On windows each line ending has an additional '\r' over the unix one. Python struggles with code that contains a mixture of line ending characters. When opening a file, '\r' characters are removed from the stream but these are being imported with a paste command.

To reproduce:

• Copy some code from an external editor on Windows;
• Go to the end of a line and press return;
• Execute the code. A syntax error should occur

The workaround for now is to save and reload the file.

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [3238]) Fixed code pasting in MantidPlot Python window. Fixes #913

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​1761