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26.3; `python-shell-buffer-substring` does not respect region

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Gaby Launay <gaby.launay <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 39398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39398: 26.3; `python-shell-buffer-substring` does not respect region
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:30:28 +0100

Gaby Launay <gaby.launay <at> protonmail.com> writes:

> `python-shell-send-region` uses `python-shell-buffer-substring` to
> determine which part of the buffer to send to the python interpreter. At
> the moment, it does not respect the position of the beginning of the
> region but instead use the beginning of the line. This is great to avoid
> sending invalid pieces of lines, but does not allow to evaluate portion
> of lines.

Yes, that seems rather odd -- as far as I can see, the command is not
documented to behave in this way, but says it's sending the region.

So I've changed it as you suggested, and I guess we'll see whether
there's any protests.

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