Should the Qt console be treated as a tty?

[swt30]

Came here from astropy/astropy#2297, where a updateable progress bar isn't printing inside the Qt console. It looks like this is because, in the console, sys.stdout.isatty() is False. Should this be the case? I don't know enough about what a tty actually is to judge whether this is something that needs to be fixed, or whether we shouldn't be using isatty to judge whether we can treat the console like one.

[ccordoba12]

Qtconsole is written entirely in Qt. It emulates the look and feel of a real console (i.e. a tty one) but it doesn't have to do anything with it.

[swt30]

OK thanks - sounds like something that needs to be worked round on the other end then.