I've noticed an odd behavior with compile() and code that does not
contain a trailing newline: if the last line is a comment inside of
any block, a syntax error is thrown, but if the last line is a non-
comment Python statement, there is no error. Here's an example (using
2.5.1 on OS X)
>>> txt = """
... def foo():
... print 'bar' """
>>> compcode = compile(t.strip(), "", "exec")
>>> compcode
<code object <module> at 0x79608, file "", line 2>
>>> txt += " # Comment on last line"
>>> compcode = compile(txt.strip(), "", "exec")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "", line 4
# Comment on last line
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> compcode = compile(txt.strip() + "\n", "", "exec")
>>> compcode
<code object <module> at 0x79a40, file "", line 2>
Obviously the easy workaround is to add a newline and all is well, so
this isn't a show-stopper, but is this a bug?
-- Ed Leafe
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