eryk sun wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Veek M <vek.m1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2. Blank lines in my code within the editor are perfectly acceptable >> for readability but they act as a block termination on cmd line. > > You can write a simple paste() function. For example: > > import sys > paste = lambda: exec(sys.stdin.read(), globals()) > > >>> paste() > class Foo: > """test class""" > > def spam(self): > '''test method''' > return 'eggs' > > >>> Foo().spam() > 'eggs' > > In a Unix terminal and IDLE, stdin.read() is terminated by typing > Ctrl+D at the start of an empty line. For the Windows console, it's > Ctrl+Z, Enter. 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.
ah! very clever and many thanks! so, you use .pythonrc.py to store/define your cmd-line shortcuts. It doesn't work in python2.x, because exec is a stmt, so, def paste( -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
