ctrl-w deletes words with punctuation instead of whitespace boundary

[injust]

Bug report

Bug description:

I am used to ctrl-w deleting entire words, using whitespace as the boundary. Based on https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.14/Lib/_pyrepl/reader.py#L81, I think the Python REPL is supposed to do that?

However, ctrl-w currently deletes words using punctuation+whitespace as the boundary.

CPython versions tested on:

3.14

Operating systems tested on:

macOS

Linked PRs

• gh-146044: Fix ctrl-w (unix-word-rubout) to use whitespace word boundaries #146174

[picnixz]

I do not consider this a bug because I find ctrl+w stopping at whitespaces unhelpful in general and so I would suggest that you open a DPO thread to gather feedback from other users.

I think some terminals do change the meaning of ctrl+w or maybe some OSes (macOS+zsh stops at punctuation IIRC)