Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> added the comment: A few years ago, there was a particular case in which compile failed without a trailing newline. We fixed it so that it would work anyway. Unless we are willing for a conforming Python interpreter to fail

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exec('print("hello")') hello

The Reference Manual should be clear that EOF and EOS (end-of-string) is treated as NEWLINE. ---------- nosy: +terry.reedy _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33766> _______________________________________