Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment:
In interactive mode, multiline statements are terminated with a blank line.
Your examples lacks that, so the 3rd line is part of the def and lacking the
proper indent, is indeed a syntax error. You get the same with the standard
command-line interpreter.
>>> def f():
... return 42
... f()
File "<stdin>", line 3
f()
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
That said, adding a blank line still gives a syntax error in IDLE, instead of
ignoring the extra statement, while the interpreter prints 42. IDLE requires an
explicit blank line from the keyboard to terminate compound statements; pasted
blank lines do not count #3559 (which I now see you commented on - I should
have been notified but was not).
I suspect you are correct about the dependency on code.InteractiveConsole(),
but I have not looked at the IDLE code either.
In the meanwhile, either paste multiple statements in the the real interpreter
or into an IDLE window and use F5 run.
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nosy: +terry.reedy
type: -> feature request
versions: -Python 2.7
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