[Python-Dev] odd interpreter feature

[Guido van Rossum]

>     Guido> And yes, it's a wart, but I don't know how to fix it.
> 
> I did a little digging and noticed this comment dating from v 2.5 (Jul 91):
> 
>     /* Lines with only whitespace and/or comments
>        shouldn't affect the indentation and are
>        not passed to the parser as NEWLINE tokens,
>        except *totally* empty lines in interactive
>        mode, which signal the end of a command group. */
> 
> Not surprisingly, given the age of the change, your fingerprints are all
> over it. ;-)
> 
> I suspect if the code beneath that comment was executed only when the
> indentation level is zero we'd be okay, but I don't know if the tokenizer
> has that sort of information available.  I'll do a little more poking
> around.

Please do.  The indentation level should be easily available, since it
is computed by the tokenizer.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)