Ignore leading '>>>' and ellipsis?

[Rhodri James]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:13:54 -0000, Reckoner <reckoner at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am studying some examples in a tutorial where there are a lot of
> leading >>> characters and ellipsis in the text. This makes it hard to
> cut and paste into the IPython interpreter since it doesn't like these
> strings.
>
> Is there another interpreter I could use that will appropriately
> ignore and interpret these leading terms?
>
> For example, I cannot paste the following directly into the
> interpreter:
>
>>>> d = dict(x.__array_interface__)
>>>> d['shape'] = (3, 2, 5)
>>>> d['strides'] = (20, 20, 4)
>
>>>> class Arr:
> ...     __array_interface__ = d
> ...     base = x

Well don't do that then.

Snippy as that sounds, it's an entirely serious comment.  You will learn  
more by doing it yourself than if you side-step your brain with cut and  
paste.

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Rhodri James *-* Wildebeeste Herder to the Masses