On 3/11/2021 6:01 AM, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
This is a valid Python program:
def f(): pass
print(f)
But at the REPL:
>>> def f(): pass
... print(f)
File "<stdin>", line 2
print(f)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
It doesn't seem to matter what the second line is. In the REPL you have
to leave a blank line after the "def" line. Why?
REPL executes *one* statement at a time. It has always required a blank
to end a compound statement because ending with a dedented second
statement violates that.
Something like
>>> def f():
... a = 3
is more typical. A dedented statement looks like a buggy continuation
line.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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