[issue9618] IDLE shell ignores all but first statement

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

In interactive mode, multiline statements are terminated with a blank line. Your examples lacks that, so the 3rd line is part of the def and lacking the proper indent, is indeed a syntax error. You get the same with the standard command-line interpreter.
>>> def f():
...     return 42
... f()
  File "<stdin>", line 3
    f()
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

That said, adding a blank line still gives a syntax error in IDLE, instead of ignoring the extra statement, while the interpreter prints 42. IDLE requires an explicit blank line from the keyboard to terminate compound statements; pasted blank lines do not count #3559 (which I now see you commented on - I should have been notified but was not).

I suspect you are correct about the dependency on code.InteractiveConsole(), but I have not looked at the IDLE code either.

In the meanwhile, either paste multiple statements in the the real interpreter or into an IDLE window and use F5 run.

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nosy: +terry.reedy
type:  -> feature request
versions:  -Python 2.7

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