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From: Robert Kern on 9 Aug 2010 21:59 On 8/9/10 4:43 PM, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On 2010-08-09 22:23, Robert Kern wrote: >> On 2010-08-09 06:42 , Stefan Schwarzer wrote: >>> Unfortunatey, when I enter >>> >>> In [2]: %paste >>> >>> at the prompt it gives me (before I pasted anything) >>> >>> In [2]: %paste >>> ------------------------------------------------------------ >>> File "<string>", line 1 >>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython/0.10 >>> ^ >>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >> >> Yes, that's because you had that URL in your clipboard, not Python code. What >> were you expecting to happen? > > I got that traceback as soon as I typed in "%paste" and > pressed enter, without pasting anything in the terminal. > I had assumed it works like :paste in Vim, activating a > kind of "paste mode" where everything pasted into the > terminal is modified as the help text suggests. %cpaste will do that. I implemented %paste because not all terminals will correctly paste arbitrary amounts of code correctly. Grabbing the text directly from the clipboard is less error-prone and removes redundant user interaction. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco |