Martin Panter added the comment:
The plain Python shell does respond to lines with only a comment and/or
horizontal space with a continuation prompt. It only treats completely blank
lines without any horizontal space specially:
>>>
... # Indented blank line above; completely blank line
Thomas Kluyver added the comment:
Hmm, that's interesting.
For our purposes, a blank line or a comment line shouldn't result in a
continuation prompt. This is consistent with what the plain Python shell does.
As part of this, we're tokenizing the code, and if the final \n results in a NL
Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu:
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Meador Inge added the comment:
The current behavior seems consistent with the lexical definition for
blank lines [1]:
A logical line that contains only spaces, tabs, formfeeds and possibly a
comment, is ignored (i.e., no NEWLINE token is generated).
NL and COMMENT are used for items that the
New submission from Thomas Kluyver:
The docs describe the NL token as Token value used to indicate a
non-terminating newline. The NEWLINE token indicates the end of a logical line
of Python code; NL tokens are generated when a logical line of code is
continued over multiple physical lines.
