Pasting code into the cmdline interpreter

[Veek M]

eryk sun wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Gregory Ewing
> <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> eryk sun wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually in a Unix terminal the cursor can also be at
>>> the end of a line, but a bug in Python requires pressing Ctrl+D
>>> twice in that case.
>>
>> I wouldn't call that a bug, rather it's a consequence of
>> what Ctrl-D does. It doesn't really mean EOF, it means to
>> send whatever the terminal driver has in its input buffer.
>> If the buffer is empty at the time, the process gets a
>> zero-length read which is taken as EOF. But if the buffer
>> is not empty, it just gets whatever is in the buffer.
>>
>> There's nothing Python can do about that, because it
>> never sees the Ctrl-D -- that's handled entirely by the
>> terminal driver.
> 
> Yes, FileIO.readall continues making read() system calls until it sees
> an empty read. But if we know we're reading from a terminal, we should
> be able to assume that a read either consumes an entire line up to a
> newline character or the entire buffer, no? In other words, if we see
> a read that returns less than the buffer size but doesn't end on a
> newline, then for a terminal, and only a terminal, I think we can
> infer Ctrl+D was typed and handle it as EOF.
 
read() changes it behavior intelligently according to the file type 
(pipe, fifo, etc). By default, from a terminal, it reads up to the first 
newline - canonical mode/cooked mode vs non-canonical mode (vi/less). 
Maybe python interpreter is doing the read in non-canonical mode?