Many online python examples show interactive python sessions with normal leading ">>>" and "..." characters before each line.
Often, there's no way to copy this code without also getting these prefixes.
In these cases, if I want to re-paste this code into my own python interpreter after copying, I have to do some work to first strip off those prefixes.
Does anyone know of a way to get python or iPython (or any other python interpreter) to automatically ignore leading ">>>" and "..." characters on lines that are pasted in?
Example:
>>> if True:
... print("x")
...
You just need to either switch off autoindent to include >>> and ... in a multiline paste:
In [14]: %autoindent
Automatic indentation is: OFF
In [15]: >>> for i in range(10):
....: ... pass
....:
In [16]: >>> for i in range(10):
...: ... pass
...: ...
In [17]: >>> for i in range(10):
...: ... pass
...: ...
In [18]: %autoindent
Automatic indentation is: ON
In [19]: >>> for i in range(10):
....: ... pass
....:
File "<ipython-input-17-5a70fbf9a5a4>", line 2
... pass
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Or don't copy the >>> and it will work fine:
In [20]: %autoindent
Automatic indentation is: OFF
In [20]: for i in range(10):
....: ... pass
....: