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Opening Python script in Ruby mode is not working

Trying out the new "Ruby Mode" in Python 3.9, but am having trouble getting it working:

Simple script in mymodule:

puts "Hello World"

Expected output when executing the file in ruby mode ("rb") was for "Hello World" printed on stdout, but I'm getting an error:

>>> with open("mymodule", mode="rb") as f:
...     for line in f:
...         exec(line)
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1
    puts "Hello World"
                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

It looks like the lines are being correctly parsed as rb"ruby style lines", so it's clearly not open at fault:

>>> line.strip() == rb'puts "Hello World"'
True

What's wrong here? That must be a bug in exec, right?

Solution

  • Running a file in Ruby mode has to be lead by a Ruby shebang. Try using:

    #!/usr/april/fools/ruby
puts "Hello World"