Pasting code into the cmdline interpreter

[Christian Gollwitzer]

Am 22.09.16 um 07:12 schrieb Veek M:
> I wanted to test this piece of code which is Kate (editor) on the cmd
> line python >>> prompt:
> 2. Blank lines in my code within the editor are perfectly acceptable for
> readability but they act as a block termination on cmd line. So if i
> paste:
> tex_matches = re.findall(r'(\\\w+{.+?})|(\\\w+)', msg)
> for tex_word in tex_matches:
>     repl = unicode_tex.tex_to_unicode_map.get(tex_word)
>
>     if repl is None:
>
> I get:
>  IndentationError: unexpected indent

IPython has a %paste and %cpaste magic to deal with this and other 
problems. It won't resolve the tab issue. However, Python code in 
general (due to indentation) is not very friendly for pasting and 
interactive usage. Better write the code to a file, then (again from 
IPython) you can read this by %run filename.py

	Christian