From 4512a160d045695ee0349fd91af7aaaa6fb71410 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
<31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 00:42:21 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] gh-65802: IDLE - explain SaveAs and extensions (GH-95690)
(GH-95692)
File name extensions may or may not be shown for the current name
and are added in an OS-dependent manner if not given for the new
name.
(cherry picked from commit 9890f86ae2001d19e7a18fee5b13aa0dd6069aef)
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
---
Doc/library/idle.rst | 7 +++++--
Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt | 2 ++
.../IDLE/2022-08-04-20-07-51.gh-issue-65802.xnThWe.rst | 1 +
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2022-08-04-20-07-51.gh-issue-65802.xnThWe.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/idle.rst b/Doc/library/idle.rst
index e91ec40c9ad..2d52e535574 100644
--- a/Doc/library/idle.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/idle.rst
@@ -87,11 +87,14 @@ Save
Save As...
Save the current window with a Save As dialog. The file saved becomes the
- new associated file for the window.
+ new associated file for the window. (If your file namager is set to hide
+ extensions, the current extension will be omitted in the file name box.
+ If the new filename has no '.', '.py' and .'txt' will be added for Python
+ and text files, except that on macOS Aqua,'.py' is added for all files.)
Save Copy As...
Save the current window to different file without changing the associated
- file.
+ file. (See Save As note above about filename extensions.)
Print Window
Print the current window to the default printer.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index ce95e2f9948..7fa7facf8cf 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Released on 2022-10-03
=========================
+gh-65802: Document handling of extensions in Save As dialogs.
+
gh-95191: Include prompts when saving Shell (interactive input/output).
gh-95511: Fix the Shell context menu copy-with-prompts bug of copying
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2022-08-04-20-07-51.gh-issue-65802.xnThWe.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2022-08-04-20-07-51.gh-issue-65802.xnThWe.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a62a784b6e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2022-08-04-20-07-51.gh-issue-65802.xnThWe.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Document handling of extensions in Save As dialogs.
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