Pasting code into the cmdline interpreter

[Veek M]

Ben Finney wrote:

> Veek M <vek.m1234 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> 1. I had to turn on <TAB> highlighting to catch mixed indent (which
>> is a good thing anyways so this was resolved - not sure how tabs got
>> in anyhow)
> 
> The EditorConfig system is a growing consensus for configuring a code
> base to instruct text editors not to mangle it. See the EditorConfig
> site <URL:http://editorconfig.org/> for more information.
> 
> Sadly, it seems Kate does not yet recognise EditorConfig instructions
> <URL:https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330843>. In the meantime,
> manually configure Kate to only ever insert spaces to indent lines.
> 
>> 2. Blank lines in my code within the editor are perfectly acceptable
>> for readability but they act as a block termination on cmd line.
> 
> Yes. That is a deliberate compromise to make it easy to write code
> interactively at the interactive prompt.
> 
>> I get:
>>  IndentationError: unexpected indent
>>
>> How do i deal with this - what's the best way to achieve what I'm
>> trying to do.
> 
> Since you are writing code into a module file, why not just run the
> module from that file with the non-interactive Python interpreter?
> 
It's part of a hexchat plugin/addon.. like below (basically lots of 
hexchat crud interspersed. 

Anyway, i should hive it off into a separate function, and hide the 
import hexchat - still, bit of a pain.

import hexchat

def send_message(word, word_eol, userdata):
    if not(word[0] == "65293"):
        return

    msg = hexchat.get_info('inputbox')
    if msg is None:
        return

    x = re.match(r'(^\\help)\s+(\w+)', msg)
    if x:
        filter = x.groups()[1]
        for key, value in unicode_tex.tex_to_unicode_map.items():
            if filter in key:
                print_help(value + ' ' + key)
        hexchat.command("settext %s" % '')
        return

    # findall returns: [(,), (,), ...] or []
    tex_matches = re.findall(r'((\\\w+){(.+?)})|(\\\w+)', msg)
    if len(tex_matches) == 0: 
      return