[Python-checkins] r76230 - in python/trunk: Doc/library/functions.rst Lib/test/test_codeop.py Lib/test/test_compile.py Lib/test/test_parser.py Misc/NEWS Parser/parsetok.c Parser/tokenizer.c Parser/tokenizer.h

[Nick Coghlan]

Georg Brandl wrote:
> benjamin.peterson schrieb:
> 
>> Modified: python/trunk/Doc/library/functions.rst
>> ==============================================================================
>> --- python/trunk/Doc/library/functions.rst	(original)
>> +++ python/trunk/Doc/library/functions.rst	Fri Nov 13 00:39:44 2009
>> @@ -173,11 +173,10 @@
>>  
>>     .. note::
>>  
>> -      When compiling a string with multi-line statements, line endings must be
>> -      represented by a single newline character (``'\n'``), and the input must
>> -      be terminated by at least one newline character.  If line endings are
>> -      represented by ``'\r\n'``, use :meth:`str.replace` to change them into
>> -      ``'\n'``.
>> +      When compiling a string with multi-line statements in ``'single'`` or
>> +      ``'eval'`` mode, input must be terminated by at least one newline
>> +      character.  This is to facilitate detection of incomplete and complete
>> +      statements in the :mod:`code` module.
> 
> Multi-line statements in "eval" mode?

You can do that with line continuations and bracket matching.

>>>code = compile("sys.stdout.write(str(\n1\n+\n1)+'\\n')\n",
"<string>", "eval")
>>> import sys
>>> exec code
2

Cheers,
Nick.

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