by2py Bug: Removes every colon

[kkevlar]

Here's a python snippet:

print("Hello World: !")

Running py2by on this snippet results in:

print("Hello World !")

The documentation explains that py2by is experimental- but I'd like to report this bug. Maybe there's an easy fix?

I discovered this bug when py2by-ing a souce file with type annotations (they break).

[spannercodes]

Perhaps by only removing colons followed by a \n or \r\n? But that doesn't do anything to stop multi-line strings like

""" This is:
a multi-line string """

I imagine it would be a lot more complicated to find a fix for those cases, though they will be less frequent.

[emmatebibyte]

Perhaps by only removing colons followed by a \n or \r\n? But that doesn't do anything to stop multi-line strings like

""" This is:
a multi-line string """

I imagine it would be a lot more complicated to find a fix for those cases, though they will be less frequent.

Why not simply stop deleting colons when it runs into a string and restart when the string is over?

[xXCrash2BomberXx]

Maybe my build would work better, assuming you still want to find one that may work
My Build of Bython