[Python-Dev] Fun with whitespace (original) (raw)
Chris King colanderman at gmail.com
Fri Jul 23 22:26:54 CEST 2004
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16🔞34 +0200, Jack Jansen <jack.jansen at cwi.nl> wrote:
But it makes a difference where you're pasting it: in an editor window (where you don't want the >>>) or in an email message (where you probably do want the >>>).
I like the way Gnucap (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnucap/) handles prompt cut and pastes. It simply ignores any prompt noise at the beginning of a line. Would it be difficult to have Python do the same thing (i.e. ignore '>>>' and '...' at the beginning of a line)?
Of course you wouldn't want production code to look like this, so it should be something tabnanny checks for and complains about. Otherwise this would be very useful for cut & paste testing of code gleaned from newsgroup postings and the like into any editor (or even the command prompt itself).
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