On 2010-08-09 06:42 , Stefan Schwarzer wrote:
Hi Steven,
On 2010-08-09 10:21, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
And that it's quite finicky about blank lines between methods and inside
functions. Makes it hard to paste code directly into the interpreter.
And that pasting doesn't strip out any leading prompts. It needs a good
doctest mode.
ipython [1] should help here:
IPython 0.10 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
? -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help -> Python's own help system.
object? -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more.
In [1]: %paste?
Type: Magic function
Base Class:<type 'instancemethod'>
String Form:<bound method InteractiveShell.magic_paste
of<IPython.iplib.InteractiveShell object at 0xb740096c>>
Namespace: IPython internal
File: /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/IPython/Magic.py
Definition: %paste(self, parameter_s='')
Docstring:
Allows you to paste& execute a pre-formatted code block from clipboard.
The text is pulled directly from the clipboard without user
intervention.
The block is dedented prior to execution to enable execution of method
definitions. '>' and '+' characters at the beginning of a line are
ignored, to allow pasting directly from e-mails, diff files and
doctests (the '...' continuation prompt is also stripped). The
executed block is also assigned to variable named 'pasted_block' for
later editing with '%edit pasted_block'.
You can also pass a variable name as an argument, e.g. '%paste foo'.
This assigns the pasted block to variable 'foo' as string, without
dedenting or executing it (preceding>>> and + is still stripped)
'%paste -r' re-executes the block previously entered by cpaste.
IPython statements (magics, shell escapes) are not supported (yet).
See also
--------
cpaste: manually paste code into terminal until you mark its end.
Unfortunatey, when I enter
In [2]: %paste
at the prompt it gives me (before I pasted anything)
In [2]: %paste
------------------------------------------------------------
File "<string>", line 1
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython/0.10
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Yes, that's because you had that URL in your clipboard, not Python code. What
were you expecting to happen?
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