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From: "Peter Heitzer" <peter.heitzer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Can I copy/paste Python code?
Date: 21 Jul 2015 08:40:28 GMT
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ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> wrote:
>I'm trying to copy some Python code from a PDF book that I'm reading.  I want to test out the code, and I can copy it, but when I paste it into the Shell, everything is all screwed up because of the indentation. Every time I paste in any kind of code, it seems like everything is immediately left-justified, and then nothing works.

>Any idea how to make this work easily?  Without re-typing hundreds of lines of code...
try cat >testfile , paste in and type ^D or use a graphical text editor to paste the code
in.