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Re: How to run script from interpreter?

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Date 2014-05-30 10:46 +1000
Subject Re: How to run script from interpreter?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.10466.1401410797.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> (By the way, ; won't work for a Python shell, because ;spam already is
> valid Python syntax: it's an empty statement followed by the statement
> spam, separated by a semicolon.)

That's not really a problem, though. It's not going to stop you from
doing something actually *useful*, and the fact that the semicolon
could be syntactically valid isn't going to come into it, because the
REPL would swallow it anyway.

But I agree that IDLE does not need a "drop to shell" mode.

ChrisA

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Re: How to run script from interpreter? onlyvinish@gmail.com - 2014-05-28 00:44 -0700
  Re: How to run script from interpreter? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-28 11:32 -0400
  Re: How to run script from interpreter? Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-05-28 11:39 -0500
    Re: How to run script from interpreter? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-29 03:22 +0000
      Re: How to run script from interpreter? Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-05-29 15:26 -0500
        Re: How to run script from interpreter? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-30 00:33 +0000
          Re: How to run script from interpreter? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-30 10:46 +1000
            Re: How to run script from interpreter? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-30 01:49 +0000
              Re: How to run script from interpreter? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-30 12:04 +1000
                Re: How to run script from interpreter? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-30 06:20 +0000
                Re: How to run script from interpreter? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-30 17:19 +1000
                Re: How to run script from interpreter? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-30 11:27 +0000
                Re: How to run script from interpreter? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-30 21:46 +1000
                Re: How to run script from interpreter? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-30 19:28 +0000
                Re: How to run script from interpreter? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-31 05:47 +1000
                Re: How to run script from interpreter? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-30 11:24 -0400

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