[Python-Dev] Pasting interpreter prompts

[Moshe Zadka]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

> One gripe that i hear a lot is that it's really difficult
> to cut and paste chunks of Python code when you're working
> with the interpreter because the ">>> " and "... " prompts
> keep getting in the way.  Does anyone else often have or
> hear of this problem?
> 
> Here is a suggested solution: for interactive mode only,
> the console maintains a flag "dropdots", initially false.
> 
> After line = raw_input(">>> "):
>     if line[:4] in [">>> ", "... "]:
>         dropdots = 1
>         line = line[4:]
>     else:
>         dropdots = 0
>     interpret(line)

Python 1.5.2 (#1, Feb 21 2000, 14:52:33)  [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)]
on sunos5
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> a=[]
>>> a[
... ... 
... ]
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: sequence index must be integer
>>> 

Sorry.

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