Copy-paste into Python interactive interpreter and indentation

Question

This piece of code, file test.py,

if 1:
   print \"foo\"
print \"bar\"

can be successfully executed with execfile(\"test.py\

Answer 1

Indentation is probably lost or broken.

Have a look at IPython -- it's an enhanced Python interpreter with many convenient features. One of them is a magic function %paste that allows you to paste multiple lines of code.

It also has tab-completion, auto-indentation... and many more. Have a look at their site.

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Using %paste in IPython:

And copy-and-paste stuff is one of the things fixed in the Qt console. Here's using a plain old copy-and-paste of your code block that "just works" in the new IPython qtconsole: