[Python-Dev] Inconsistent script/console behaviour

[Georg Brandl]

Am 24.09.2011 01:32, schrieb Guido van Rossum:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:25 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Currently if you work in console and define a function and then
>> immediately call it - it will fail with SyntaxError.
>> For example, copy paste this completely valid Python script into console:
>>
>> def some():
>>  print "XXX"
>> some()
>>
>> There is an issue for that that was just closed by Eric. However, I'd
>> like to know if there are people here that agree that if you paste a
>> valid Python script into console - it should work without changes.
> 
> You can't fix this without completely changing the way the interactive
> console treats blank lines. None that it's not just that a blank line
> is required after a function definition -- you also *can't* have a
> blank line *inside* a function definition.

While the former could be changed (I think), the latter certainly cannot.
So it's probably not worth changing established behavior.

Georg