compile() and comments

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Oct 14 19:02:00 EDT 2008


Steve Holden wrote:
> Ed Leafe wrote:
>> On Oct 13, 2008, at 8:35 AM, Fuzzyman wrote:
>>
>>> It is certainly an odd restriction, but the docs for compile [1] do
>>> explicitly state that the input must be newline terminated.
>>
>>     Understood; what I found odd was that if the last
>> non-newline-terminated statement was *not* a comment, no error was thrown.
>>
> What if the last line is indented?

Unterminated last-line comments raise an exception indented or not.  I 
did not test 'regular' non-indented lines.




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