On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Andrey Novoseltsev <novos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday, 12 December 2014 14:46:06 UTC-7, William wrote:
>>
>> It's completely reasonable to assign a variable and do a calculation
>> with it in the same cell.
>>
>>
>
> Of course, I meant that on the command line those line were two "execution
> units" and so were handled separately, with separate treatment of leading
> indentation.

Oh, sorry.  I agree totally.

I also agree with you and Karl's suggestion to pass off the string as
is to IPython, which would maintain consistency...

William

>And I think it is completely reasonable to expect consistent
> indentation in the same cell. Mixing different indentation is much more
> wrong code than stripping prompts.
>
> I am pretty sure that I was puzzled before by this behaviour (without
> realizing that this was the issue) in some of student's worksheets, where
> everything runs fine without errors, but does not work as expected. I would
> prefer an error message forcing to fix indentation.
>
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